Identity Lifecycle Management Wasn't Built for AI Agents
Summary: Identity lifecycle management was built around a human with an HR record, a manager, and a departure date, driving joiner, mover, and leaver events through platforms like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or ServiceNow HR into Active Directory or Azure AD. AI agents arrive instead through developer configuration files, platform API calls, or orchestration layers such as LangChain, AutoGen, or AWS Bedrock Agents, with credentials already attached and no IGA workflow firing.
Key Takeaway: Retired agent credentials persist in secrets managers, environment variable stores, and OAuth authorization servers long after the workload stopped running, and the governance record still shows an active identity because nothing changed from the IGA platform's perspective.
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