Shadow AI and the Machine Identity Governance Crisis: Why Most IAM Programs Weren’t Designed for This

Executive Summary The thesis: Shadow AI represents an architectural failure in identity governance for autonomous systems, not a policy enforcement problem. Most enterprise IAM programs were optimized for human users; machine identity governance remains under-tooled and under-owned. The data: Gartner reports IAM teams are responsible for only 44% of machine identities (2025). IBM found shadow … Read more