When identity isn’t human: securing the agentic enterprise
For over a decade, enterprise cybersecurity was built on a straightforward setup: a human user sits behind a screen, authenticates and carries out tasks within a session.
Traditional identity and access management (IAM) frameworks were designed around this single assumption. They validated credentials at login, established a trusted perimeter for the duration of the session, and monitored subsequent activity.
But the emergence of the agentic enterprise is challenging that assumption.
CISO of Ping Identity.
The issue facing modern internet security operations is no longer just whether an identity was verified during initial access. As autonomous software agents, coding assistants, and automated workflows are beginning to operate across cloud environments, code repositories, APIs and internal systems are dealing with a level of speed and autonomy that traditional controls were not designed to manage.
The issue now is whether organizations can see, govern and control what happens after access is granted, especially...
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