Akeyless announced its new AI Agent Identity Security solution, built to secure the rapid rise of autonomous AI systems. Akeyless, a proven leader in secrets management and machine identity security, currently secures more than 220 billion machine identity interactions, representing 560% YoY average annual growth in the last four years. Akeyless expands on this expertise with this new solution that lets enterprises secure and manage AI agent identities.
AI Agent Identity Crisis
More than 95% of organizations are planning to adopt and use AI agents in the next 12 months. The surge means that there will be a flood of digital identities with access, privileges and independence in enterprise systems. Every one of these identities exposes the enterprise to catastrophic risks if not controlled, secured and audited. Recent research found hundreds of secrets and access tokens published in publicly available AI extension packages. Investigations have also exposed how easy it is to poison ChatGPT connectors with malicious prompts that retrieve API keys and secrets.
“AI Agent identity security is a top cybersecurity concern,” said former-NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, “AI Agents have an inherent design flaw in that they are aware of their own identities and credentials. When combined with their growing authorization to vast amounts of data across many workload environments, we get a constantly expanding attack surface.”
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Traditional tools built for static, human-centric environments can’t keep up. Securing this new layer of autonomous access demands an identity model built for AI: dynamic, verifiable, and completely secretless. The Akeyless AI Agent Security solution includes multiple components to help enterprises safely adopt and securely use AI Agents.
SOURCE: Akeyless