Why the controls on an AI agent have to live outside of it, and what a security operations team can implement and maintain those controls. The new privileged user in your environmentSecurity teams spent two decades learning how to work with the people they trust most. Domain admins, DBAs, finance approvers and contractors with VPN access all get a mature playbook: verified identity, scoped access, logged activity and a fast way to revoke it all.
Your Next Insider Threat Won’t be Human: Securing AI Agents From the Outside in
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