This research-driven white paper examines how agentic AI fundamentally changes the cybersecurity landscape. It explains that autonomous AI agents can make decisions, invoke tools, and coordinate actions without direct human input, amplifying existing risks and creating new failure modes. The document presents survey findings showing rapid enterprise adoption of agentic AI and growing concern among CISOs. It introduces an agentic AI risk taxonomy, covering threats such as privilege escalation, synthetic identities, and untraceable data flows. The paper argues that identity must become the primary control plane for governing AI agents, supported by registries, dynamic authorization, monitoring, containment controls, and evolving governance models.

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