--- title: IDC Survey Finds Identity Control Gaps for AI Agents description: An IDC survey of 539 North American organizations, commissioned by Commvault, reveals significant gaps in identity management practices for AI agents. 90% of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/idc-survey-finds-identity-control-gaps-for-ai-agents-goqm24ezd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: IDC Survey Finds Identity Control Gaps for AI Agents | daily.dev og:description: An IDC survey of 539 North American organizations, commissioned by Commvault, reveals significant gaps in identity management practices for AI agents. 90% of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/idc-survey-finds-identity-control-gaps-for-ai-agents-goqm24ezd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gOqM24ezd.png og:image:alt: IDC Survey Finds Identity Control Gaps for AI Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # IDC Survey Finds Identity Control Gaps for AI Agents **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An IDC survey of 539 North American organizations, commissioned by Commvault, reveals significant gaps in identity management practices for AI agents. 90% of respondents believe their identity management needs improvement to handle agentic AI risks, with 58.7% saying a significant overhaul is required. Key concerns include the rapid proliferation of non-human machine identities that can outnumber human accounts, over-permissioned identities cloned from human accounts, and the lack of dynamic role-based access controls — only 26.7% have dynamic RBAC supporting AI. Security teams must govern not just agent legitimacy but also whether each action is appropriate for the agent's current task and context, with session- and duration-scoped access recommended to limit blast radius from compromised agents. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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