The Credentialled Agent Is the New Insider Threat

Eighty-seven percent of enterprise leaders now rate a credentialled AI agent a greater insider-threat risk than a human. A look at why policy written for human pace cannot govern a process that acts in milliseconds, and what an engineered answer (signed action lineage, authority-at-execution, a kill-switch that severs authority) actually looks like.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/credentialled-agent-new-insider-threat-2026. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 101 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).