Securing Agent Identities: 8 Risks Every CISO Must Address

Enterprises have spent two decades building real discipline around human identity: provisioning, least privilege, access reviews, clean deprovisioning. AI agents arrived faster than that discipline could be extended to them, so a population of powerful new identities is now operating ahead of the controls meant to govern it. An agent acts within the identity it is given, and that identity is often over-provisioned from the start, carrying broad, inherited, or standing access well beyond