The Next Security Battleground: Agentic Identity (19:16)
Security Boulevard, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Shahar Tal, CEO and co-founder of Cyata, discusses how the company is building the control plane for agentic identity. With deep roots in Israel's Unit 8200 and Check Point, Cyata is tackling one of the next big security challenges: governing, securing and managing identities in an agent-driven AI world.
Tal argues that organizations have spent decades refining how they onboard employees, grant permissions, monitor access, and audit behavior. But agents don't behave like employees. They can reason dynamically, operate across tools, and take action with broad connectivity to SaaS platforms, endpoints, and data stores-often with little visibility into what's running where. That's creating a fast-growing wave of 'shadow agents,' as teams adopt agent capabilities organically, or as vendors embed agent features into products by default.