The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn't

The Hacker News · Saturday, 10 October 2026 at 11:00 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but because an identity stack can only govern what authenticates through it, and most agents never do.

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