The Identity Blindspot: Why Your Attack Surface Strategy Is Missing Its Most Critical Layer
Your attack surface is exploding. But the fastest, most dangerous expansion isn't where you think.
The Gartner® 2025 Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Global Attack Surface Grid discusses that identity, not endpoints, not network segmentation, is the single highest-priority technology on the entire Global Attack Surface Grid.
- Why agentic identities are rated “Very High” impact with 1–3 year adoption, outranking every other emerging technology
- With 61% of organizations already having implemented automated AI agents in some capacity
- The three capabilities, continuous adaptive trust, agentic identity governance, and unified intelligence, that close the gap
- SecureAuth named a Sample Vendor for Agentic Identities by Gartner®
"The proliferation of AI agents is driving the explosion of machine identities, which have already far surpassed human identities."
— Gartner®, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Global Attack Surface Grid, September 2025
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