65% of organizations use IAM systems.

Responsibility for AI agent identity and access is fragmented: 28% of organizations assign primary ownership to security leads, 21% to development/engineering, 19% to IT, and 9% to IAM teams.

Currently, 23% of senior corporate security leaders say Identity and Access Management is largely run with agentic AI; this rises to 51% in two years.

Identity and access management (IAM) accounts for more than 15% of deals in Q4 2025.

85% of IT leaders agree that secure identity and access management is critical for scaling AI safely.

84% of organizations doubt they can pass a compliance audit focused on agent behavior or access controls.

18% of IT and security professionals are highly confident their current IAM systems can manage agent identities effectively, while 35% report moderate confidence, 29% report slight confidence, and 18% report no or uncertain confidence.

42% of leaders at U.S. organizations are making identity and access management a top budget priority over the next two to three years.

53% of organizations identified lenient identity and access management practices as a top challenge.

68% of healthcare executives indicated that identity and access management would be the top priority for increasing investments in the coming fiscal year.

42% cited identity and access management as a security function where AI will provide the most value in the next 3 years