Who Do Autonomous Agents Answer To? The Identity & Governance Problem
This is Part 2 of a two-part series on Agentic Identity. Part 1: Identity Management for Agentic AI: Making Authentication & Authorization Digestible https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/identity-management-for-agentic-ai-making-authentication-authorization-digestible-0fc5bb212862 TL;DR Agentic AI challenges traditional IAM by introducing autonomous actors that can act on behalf of humans or organizations. Identity is no longer a single ID, it’s rich metadata, context, and trust. Delegation, recursive access, and dynamic tool discovery introduce new security and governance complexities. Scalable human oversight will require AI-assisted, risk-based governance to prevent […]