As Indian enterprises accelerate their AI-driven transformation, identity security is emerging as the most critical layer of cyber defence, replacing traditional network-centric perimeters.
Experts point out that identity is the primary target for attackers—whether human users, machines, APIs, bots, or increasingly, agentic AI.
Over the past five years, IT environments have shifted rapidly from on-premise systems to complex SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS ecosystems.
Identity is no longer static or human-only; it now operates at massive scale and speed.
Managing who has access, why they have it, and how it is being used requires centralised visibility—a single pane of glass across all identities and applications.
This is where AI-driven Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) plays a decisive role.
Unlike traditional IGA, AI-enabled platforms provide dynamic risk assessment, assigning real-time risk scores to identities based on behaviour, context, and access patterns.
This allows organisations to move from reactive security to predictive and proactive risk management.
Beyond security, IGA delivers strong ROI. Timely access provisioning boosts productivity, dormant account removal reduces risk, and visibility into software usage cuts costs.
As AI agents become operational realities, granular identity visibility will be essential to ensure accountability, trust, and resilience.
In the AI era, identity is not just part of security—it is the security perimeter.
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