Beyond Legacy IAM: The Enterprise Guide to AI Agent Governance

AI agents are operating inside critical systems with credentials, access, and autonomy that most organizations can't fully see or control. The identity infrastructure that governs human users wasn't built for actors that authenticate once, persist indefinitely, and chain actions at machine speed. This guide gives IT and security leaders a working model for closing that gap.

In this guide, you will learn how to:

• Govern AI agents as persistent identities with full lifecycle accountability, from creation through retirement.
• Close the gaps in discovery, ownership, control, and scale that legacy IAM leaves open.
• Apply a four-part framework — Discovery, Governance, Verification, and Continuous Control — to your existing identity program.
• Evaluate AI agent governance solutions on the criteria that matter: runtime authorization, ownership management, and cross-ecosystem visibility.

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