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Black Hat USA 2026 wrapped in Las Vegas with a clear verdict: the industry has stopped debating whether AI changes the threat landscape and started building for the fact that it already has. Nearly a third of the conference's briefings dealt directly with AI security, agent exploitation, or LLM-assisted offensive research — and the conversations happening in partner meetings and dinners around the show floor tracked right alongside it.

Every enterprise is racing to adopt AI, and every security team is racing to keep up without becoming the department that says no. Most are still evaluating tooling built specifically for AI agents. But there's a faster, simpler starting point available today: the large majority of AI activity right now runs on behalf of a signed-in user, what we call “on-behalf-of” (OBO) access. Secure that identity well, and you've secured the AI acting through it.