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For today’s C-suite, growing identity complexity and rising cybersecurity regulations are driving increased executive accountability to proactively reduce security and compliance risk.

As enterprise ecosystems rapidly expand to include not just employees and contractors, but also machine identities and autonomous AI agents, legacy identity governance tools can no longer keep pace. Security leaders are increasingly expected to demonstrate ongoing, real-time oversight through a modern identity security program, rather than relying on the dangerous blind spots of point-in-time reviews.

Foundry research identifies identity security as one of the top cybersecurity priorities for 2026, reflecting the growing complexity of managing both human and non-human identities. At the same time, streamlining compliance and privacy efforts remains a top priority for CISOs.

The following questions can help security leaders assess their organizations’ readiness for continuous identity governance and identify potential gaps before they become security or compliance issues.