Executive Summary AI agents are becoming enterprise actors: they can call tools, access data, and execute workflows. The identity challenge appears when those actors are created faster than the organization can discover, own, authorize, observe, and retire them. Microsoft's current governance guidance treats agent identities as lifecycle objects with human sponsorship and access controls. [1] Google Cloud's 2026 agent-security guidance similarly emphasizes first-class agent identity and least-privilege boundaries. [2] CyberTech Intelligence therefore frames shadow AI agent risk as an operating-model problem: discovery must connect directly to identity, authority, approval…
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