Beth Pariseau<p>I'm not wild about the "Year of" trope, but I think we can go ahead and call this the Year of Agentic AI. I've rarely seen one topic so thoroughly absorb the entire industry's attention. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> often follows the initial hype around the latest shiny object. Still, some IT pros and vendors are considering what <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/agenticAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agenticAI</span></a> means for security, particularly in identity and access management. </p><p>In this feature that was months in the making, experts from academic, vendor, and enterprise backgrounds weighed in.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AIagents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIagents</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/IAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAM</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/identityandaccessmanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identityandaccessmanagement</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SecOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecOps</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ITOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ITOps</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/identitysecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identitysecurity</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PAM</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/abac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abac</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/accesscontrols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accesscontrols</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366622025/AI-agents-raise-stakes-in-identity-and-access-management" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techtarget.com/searchitoperati</span><span class="invisible">ons/news/366622025/AI-agents-raise-stakes-in-identity-and-access-management</span></a></p>