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Governing credentials, permissions and runtime behavior of autonomous agents and other machine identities in enterprise environments.
Rig Security raised $12 million in seed funding to separate an AI agent's actions from those of the employee whose identity it borrows. The standard way to stop a misbehaving agent, disabling its account, locks out the person as well.
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SOC 2 controls CC6.1 to CC6.3 let AI agents act under human credentials without failing a check, a BleepingComputer column argues. A clean review can leave responders unable to say who ran a query, and the criteria already let firms register agents as their own identity.
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CrowdStrike and Okta both credit enterprise agent rollouts for larger commitments. The commitments moved sharply; the quarters they reported barely did.
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Partner-led deals and what Okta's COO calls a converting AI-agent pipeline carried an $805 million quarter. Nobody has yet put a figure on what agent identity itself is worth.
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The access control vendor now takes risk signals from Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike and SentinelOne to cut an AI agent's connection mid-session. The pitch rests on numbers it did not gather.
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