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Credential sprawl: The risk your IAM can’t see

Your SaaS footprint is expanding. AI adoption is accelerating.  And in many enterprise environments, non-human identities now outnumber human identities. But as your identity stack grows, visibility into the credentials powering it – tokens, API keys, service accounts, and AI agent secrets – is shrinking beyond the reach of SSO and PAM. 

Why this matters now

Credential sprawl isn’t just about weak passwords. As organizations scale and deploy AI-powered automation, new credentials are created constantly, often outside centralized governance and invisible to traditional identity controls.

The result is a wider attack surface, long-lived privileged access, greater breach impact, and increasing regulatory pressure. Managing sign-ins is no longer enough. Organizations need governance across the entire credential lifecycle, for both human and non-human identities.

In this webinar, 1Password IT and security leaders unpack why credential sprawl has become one of the most overlooked drivers of enterprise breaches, and how AI has fundamentally changed the identity threat model.

In this session, you’ll learn:

  • How credential sprawl compounds across SaaS, shared accounts, developer workflows, and AI agents – even with SSO and PAM in place
  • Where traditional identity tools fall short in governing human and machine access 
  • The business impact of unmanaged credentials, from breach exposure to audit friction
  • What modern wall-to-wall credential governance looks like, and how an Enterprise Password Manager anchors oversight across human and machine identities

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