Agentic AI and the Practical Security Challenge
Agentic AI agents aren’t just active in many of today’s organizations; they are central to how operational systems run, as they enable task automation across cloud APIs, ITSM workflows, and RPA bots. Both knowledge workers and technical staff are creating agents and sharing them, which is contributing to the rapid proliferation. Recent studies by the GitGuardian and the Cloud Security Alliance, among others, have shown non-human identities (NHIs) to outnumber human accounts by more than 90:1. Yet, organizations often lack oversight into these NHIs, in large part because most compliance programs still focus on managing human access. This lack of NHI security leaves behind critical gaps that attackers can exploit.
Agentic AI agents introduce the following identity risks that security teams must govern day-to-day:
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Non-Human Identities and Secrets – AI agents rely on the same kinds of tokens, API keys, and service account credentials that human administrators use for authentication and access to resources, and these secrets often have a long lifespan, significantly increasing their vulnerability to exploitation. Without proper governance, these identities become a silent attack surface waiting to be exploited.
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Privilege Without Boundaries – When broadly scoped, credentials allow agents to unintentionally escalate privileges or misuse access.
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Opaque Automation – AI agents don’t pause to reflect; they act instantly. To secure this near-instantaneous automation, organizations must have proactive security and preventative controls in place.
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High-Value for Attackers – Orphaned / stale credentials can easily become stealthy entry points, giving adversaries pathways to move laterally and persist.
BeyondTrust’s Dual Defense Against Agentic AI Risks
When combined, Identity Security Insights and Password Safe create a dual defense for agentic AI identities.
First, Identity Security Insights discovers hidden agent credentials, maps risky access, and prioritizes which identities pose the highest risk. It collates risk data from Active Directory, Entra, AWS, Okta, GitHub, and more, identifying hidden privilege paths before attackers exploit them. With these contextual discovery and remediation capabilities, Identity Security Insights brings critical visibility into unmanaged secrets—the very credentials AI agents depend upon.
Identity Security Insights allows users to:
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Understand the privileges and risks of agents created by knowledge workers and developers in Azure, AWS, Copilot, Salesforce, etc.
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Understand which users have access to agents.
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Understand the privileges that agents make accessible to users.
Password Safe then complements these activities, enforcing lifecycle controls and tying them back to human owners and audit trails. It also delivers secure vaulting, rotation, and lifecycle governance for privileged accounts and secrets across hybrid and multicloud environments.
Password Safe allows users to:
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Vault and rotate secrets securely on schedule.
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Automate access controls, ensuring AI agents only retrieve credentials when needed.
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Manage lifecycle, retiring or rotating credentials as agents evolve.
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Enforce just-in-time privilege, minimizing exposure by only allowing time-bound access.
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Customer Case Studies
Large State Entity: Large State Entity Adopts Identity Security Insights to Reveal Data Across Domains and Reduce Risk
Autoleague: Autoleague Enhances Identity and Network Security with BeyondTrust
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