AI agents are cloud identities. They receive IAM roles at deployment, hold credentials, and access cloud resources to execute tasks. But unlike human users, they do this without session-based checkpoints, without manual approval steps, and sometimes with minimal human involvement. Traditional PAM was built around the assumption that a person initiates access. AI agents challenge […]

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