78% of enterprises run AI agents with shared human credentials instead of agent-specific identity

According to CSO Online, 78% of enterprises deploy AI agents using static, shared credentials rather than agent-specific identities, violating zero trust principles. Stephen Wilson, field CTO for HashiCorp, likens AI agents to "really smart kindergartners" that lack judgment to match execution power. The practice creates audit and permission revocation challenges incompatible with zero trust architectures designed for human users at the scale and speed of agentic AI.