AI agents are about to put least privilege to the test

VentureBeat · Greg Keller, JumpCloud · 2026-10-20 14:30 UTC

AI agents are challenging traditional least privilege. Learn why continuous identity governance, access reviews and audit evidence are becoming essential for agentic IAM.

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Least privilege has always rested on a straightforward idea: give an identity only the access it needs to do its job. AI agents are making that harder. Their work can change quickly, their access can span multiple systems, and their actions may happen without a person at the keyboard.

There’s another challenge underneath the permission problem: being able to prove that access was appropriate in the first place.

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