Before you ask what an AI agent can do, ask who it is

AI agents are becoming a major enterprise identity problem: organizations are deploying thousands of non-human identities across internal systems and supply chains, but many still lack a reliable way to verify who created an agent and whether it is trusted. For CIOs, the strategic takeaway is that access control alone is not enough—IT must add automated provenance checks, zero-trust authentication, and auditability for agents before they can touch sensitive data or business workflows. Without this foundation, enterprises face higher risk of data leakage, fraud, and compliance exposure at machine speed.