Why Privileged Access Is Becoming The Control Plane For Agentic AI
Security Boulevard, Friday, April 3rd, 2026
As enterprises race to deploy agentic AI, many are discovering an uncomfortable truth: Their identity and access models were never designed for autonomous systems that reason, plan and act at machine speed.
For more than a decade, zero-trust has reshaped how organizations think about security. The principle of 'never trust, always verify' pushed the industry away from perimeter-based defenses toward identity-centric access control. But while zero-trust redefined authentication and network trust, it stopped short of addressing a deeper challenge that is rapidly emerging: Governing privilege in environments defined by automation, ephemerality and non-deterministic systems.