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The article addresses critical misconfigurations in cloud-native identity management, noting how AI scales these challenges while potentially offering governance solutions. It highlights that machine identities constitute the vast majority of cloud access points, making their secure orchestration essential for modern infrastructure. This analysis is central to maintaining the security posture required for advanced AI and quantum workloads.
Risky identities continue to plague cloud infrastructures

Our research finds cloud-native IAM remains one of the most persistently misconfigured and poorly governed areas of security. Here’s what you can do.
The cloud looks like a fancy and futuristic place; a white room where things simply exist. However, as anyone who has dealt with it knows, in reality it’s a tangle of services, humans, and machines, all regulated by permissions and access control. Cloud identities provide access to users and machines so they can build and maintain the infrastructure, while establishing who is allowed to do what, where, and for how long. Our 2026 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report reveals that, despite its critical role, cloud‑native identity management remains one of the most persistently misconfigured and poorly governed areas of security.…
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