# In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the SailPoint Navigate keynote

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Author: Zeus Kerravala

Published: 2026-10-07T00:06:15Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SiliconANGLE](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/siliconangle.md>)

Topics: [ai security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-security.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Next-Gen Identity Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/next-gen-identity-security.md>), [Agentic AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/what-is-agentic-ai.md>)

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## AI overview

At SailPoint Navigate 2026, the company argued that identity security must move from scheduled reviews to real-time controls as AI agents and other nonhuman identities proliferate. The article examines agent ownership and accountability, the limits of runtime controls without identity context, standing privilege, and SailPoint's product announcements. It advises buyers to test vendors' capabilities and address existing access problems as part of a longer-term effort.

## Source excerpt

For most of its two-decade history, SailPoint Inc. has been the company that tells enterprises who should have access to what. At Navigate 2026 in Austin this week, it argued that it now needs to be the company that stops the wrong access the moment it happens. The keynote opened with an orchestra to illustrate [...] The post In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the SailPoint Navigate keynote appeared first on SiliconANGLE.