CyberArk's 2025 identity research found machine identities outnumber human ones by more than 82 to 1, with a large share holding privileged access, yet most organizations still define a privileged user as human only.
The fix for AI agents specifically is to give each agent its own scoped identity rather than a shared service account or a borrowed human login. That makes every action attributable, lets you disable one agent without locking out a person, and keeps its permissions reasonable.
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Mindlyft is the approval and audit layer over your AI GTM agents, every action drafted, human-approved, reversible, and logged. The first workflow is engineered free.
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