{"id":109376,"date":"2026-07-17T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/109376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:14:07","slug":"commvault-survey-finds-identity-management-gap-in-agentic-ai-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/109376\/","title":{"rendered":"Commvault survey finds identity management gap in agentic AI deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tinton Falls-based Commvault<\/a> announced findings from a new IDC white paper indicating that many organizations adopting agentic artificial intelligence systems are not yet prepared to manage the identity risks those systems pose.<\/p>\n

The report, \u201cResilience Operations: The Discipline that Makes Readiness Provable,\u201d was sponsored by Commvault and based on a survey of 539 IT and resilience decision-makers in North America. About 85% of respondents reported experiencing a cyber incident.<\/p>\n

According to the research, 90% of respondents said they need to improve their identity management capabilities to address risks posed by agentic AI systems. Identity management refers to the control and governance of digital identities, including human users and AI agents, and their access to systems and data throughout their life cycle.<\/p>\n

The issue is becoming more urgent as organizations deploy AI agents at scale. Many of those nonhuman identities can have always-on access and may be created in large numbers, potentially outpacing human identities. The survey found that 58.7% of respondents said their organizations require significant improvements or a complete overhaul of their identity-management approach.<\/p>\n

The research also found that 26.7% of respondents have dynamic role-based access control supporting AI and analytics, while 24.7% have documented and tested their Active Directory and Entra ID capabilities. Nearly all respondents (98.4%) said better collaboration is needed between IT and security teams, and 49.7% said major improvements are needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI is fundamentally changing how organizations operate, make decisions, and manage risk,\u201d said Vidya Shankaran, field chief technology officer at Commvault. \u201cBut many organizations are discovering that the systems designed to govern people are not prepared to govern a growing population of AI agents, machine identities, and autonomous workflows.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report also pointed to broader resilience challenges. More than half of the organizations surveyed, 57.7%, have not fully defined their minimum viable business, or the core functions needed to continue operating during a disruption.<\/p>\n

Commvault<\/a> said the findings show a growing need for resilience operations, or ResOps, an emerging discipline that brings together business, security, infrastructure, data protection and recovery teams around a shared goal of maintaining operations and accelerating recovery after a disruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIDC predicts that ResOps will mature from an emerging discipline into a mainstream enterprise capability over the next three to five years,\u201d said Frank Dickson, group vice president for IDC\u2019s Security & Trust research practice.<\/p>\n

The company also announced the IDC Cyber Readiness Assessment, an interactive tool sponsored by Commvault designed to help organizations evaluate cyber resilience maturity and identify gaps in identity, protection, detection, response and recovery capabilities. This tool will be available in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tinton Falls-based Commvault announced findings from a new IDC white paper indicating that many organizations adopting agentic artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4611,179,7493,25,3839,56375,691,3743,10019,56376,21398,14674,56377,56378,56379],"class_list":["post-109376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-active-directory","tag-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-commvault","tag-cyber-readiness","tag-cyber-resilience","tag-enterprise-technology","tag-entra-id","tag-frank-dickson","tag-idc","tag-identity-management","tag-it-security","tag-resops","tag-vidya-shankaran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}