NIST has opened its AI Agent Standards Initiative, targeting agent identity, action logging, and containment as the first formal U.S. standards effort built specifically for autonomous systems. Separately, a Cloud Security Alliance survey finds that only 18% of security leaders trust their current IAM systems to manage agent identities, while just 23% of organizations have a formal strategy for it. The Agentic AI Institute reports the consequence: 72% of enterprises now run a
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