AI agents creating a new insider security risk: theCUBE’s Oktane keynote analysis
Agents can act across apps, hand off work to other agents, and change systems faster than security teams can audit them. That's creating a new insider threat.
Why it matters
AI agents operating across enterprise systems at speed creates unprecedented visibility and permission-control challenges — and raises hard recovery questions when an agent goes rogue or exceeds its scope.
The key facts
10 to knowAgents can operate across multiple applications without human review
Agent-to-agent handoffs increase operational velocity beyond security team audit capability
Visibility and permission limits are now necessary but insufficient controls
Key challenge: enterprise recovery procedures when agents cause unauthorized changes
Source: Oktane keynote analysis (Okta's identity/security event)
Agents operate across multiple applications simultaneously
Agent-to-agent handoffs accelerate execution beyond security team review cycles
Permission limits and visibility are necessary but insufficient
Recovery from compromised agent access is an unsolved operational problem
Insider security threat model changes with agentic autonomy
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Publisher excerpt: AI agent security now depends on knowing what agents can do after they gain access. Agents can act across applications, pass work to other agents and make changes faster than security teams can review them. That makes visibility and permission limits necessary, but it also raises a harder question:…