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Guardian Agents: The Next Layer of Identity Governance
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Summary
This article discusses the emerging threat of ‘guardian agents’ – AI agents operating autonomously within enterprise environments, inheriting permissions and traversing systems at machine speed. The existing identity governance frameworks are ill-equipped to manage this new type of actor, creating a significant security gap as agents exploit stale delegations and over-scoped credentials. The accelerating adoption of agentic AI due to advancements in AI models and orchestration frameworks is exacerbating this vulnerability.
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