Okta streamcast: Why AI agents break Zero Trust
Traditional Zero Trust was built for predictable patterns of human users - patterns that AI agents have now effectively broken. While legacy security relies on anticipating user actions, agents determine their own requirements on the fly and vanish in seconds. As recent "goal-hijacking" incidents prove, the risk isn't just excessive permissions—it’s a failure of identity provenance.
Webinar Snapshot
- Strategies to grant agents real-time, task-specific access instead of excessive permanent permissions
- Methods to map every autonomous identity to a human stakeholder for clear accountability.
- The expertise to replace permanent credentials with short-lived tokens for transient agents