When "Who Are You?’ Is No Longer Enough: The Case for Intent-Based Access Control in the Age of AI Agents
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Cloud Security Alliance
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It keeps coming back to a conversation I had about six months ago. I sat with the CISO of a fortune 50 retail organization to review an incident that had kept the security team up for two straight nights. No credentials …
It keeps coming back to a conversation I had about six months ago. I sat with the CISO of a fortune 50 retail organization to review an incident that had kept the security team up for two straight nights. No credentials were stolen. No malware was deployed. No firewall rule was broken. Yet the critical reconciliation process had gone seriously wrong, wrong enough to draw regulatory scrutiny. The culprit? An AI-powered automation agent that had been granted, quite legitimately, acce…