{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [ { "@type": "Question", "name": "What is the difference between AI agent security and agentic AI security?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "They refer to the same discipline. Agentic AI security emphasizes the autonomous, multi-step nature of the systems; AI agent security is the more common phrasing. Both cover discovery, access control, and monitoring of autonomous AI." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Why can't IAM tools manage AI agents?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "IAM tools manage identities they know about. Most agents piggyback on human OAuth tokens rather than registering as distinct identities, so they are invisible to standard IAM reviews until they are discovered and mapped separately." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "What is the biggest AI agent security risk today?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Over-permissioned, unmonitored agents operating under human identities. The combination of broad access, standing credentials, and no behavioral monitoring turns any agent compromise or prompt injection into direct access to enterprise data." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Do AI agents need their own identities?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Ideally, yes. Dedicated service identities per agent make permissions auditable, revocable, and attributable. Where platforms force human-token delegation, compensating controls are narrow scopes, expiry, and behavioral monitoring." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "How does AI agent security relate to shadow AI?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Unapproved agents are a subset of shadow AI, and the highest-risk subset, because unlike a chatbot in a browser tab, an unapproved agent holds persistent credentials and can act autonomously." } } ] }