Know Your Agent: IAM Support for AI

AI offers game-changing benefits for individuals and enterprises but also exposes organizations to potentially devastating risks. One of the greatest AI-related risks and the focus of this paper is the management and security of AI agents (Agentic AI) that are designed to take proactive, autonomous actions on behalf of a wide range of stakeholders. From a security perspective, any agent that takes autonomous action must be identified, understood, managed, and governed and the right IAM foundation can play a major role in supporting this. The time to address Agentic AI is now for most enterprises in that organizations are increasingly rolling it out in a largely ungoverned manner.

In this report, TechVision Research identifies the overall agentic AI risk management objectives in concert with existing process and technology infrastructure. We also highlight critical mitigation techniques and controls that can prevent the inadvertent enablement of agentic AI from causing significant damage to your organization. These insights will help you establish a philosophy of “know your agent” (KYA) so that organizations are put in positions to succeed while limiting the “blast radius” from a bot-induced mistake or nefarious action. With over 30 years of helping our customers identify and mitigate these risks, TechVision can help with this process.