The AI Agent PAM Audit: 5 Signs of Standing Privilege
A quick diagnostic for finding standing privilege hiding in your AI agents.
About the Guide
Most organizations have made real progress in closing the standing privilege gap for human admins. AI agents are a new place for it to hide, and most PAM programs aren't looking there yet. This one-page cheatsheet gives cloud security engineers, IAM practitioners, and platform leads five concrete signs to check against their environment, plus a clear principle for fixing each one.
In this cheatsheet, you will:
- Identify the five operational tells that standing privilege is hiding in your AI agents.
- Quickly pressure-test your environment against each sign.
- Connect each gap to a clear fix grounded in JIT access, runtime authorization, and unified governance.
- See where AI agents fit inside the same PAM program you already run for human privileged access.