Are Your AI Agents a Hidden Attack Surface? Rethinking Identity and Access in the Agent Era

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of managing AI agents in enterprise environments and introduces Ceros, a control plane designed for agentic workflows.

Podcast: The Security Strategist Guest: Jasson Casey, CEO & Co-Founder, Beyond Identity Analyst: Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest In an enterprise technology market that’s saturated with AI copilots and coding agents, most enterprise security strategies are already outdated. On the recent episode of The Security Strategist podcast, analyst Richard Stiennon, Co-Founder and Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvests, presses Jasson Casey, CEO & Co-Founder, Ceros by Beyond Identity, on a question few vendors are answering clearly. “How do you actually control autonomous agents once they’re inside your environment?” posed Stiennon. Casey’s answer is architectural, focusing on Ceros – a new control plane from Beyond Identity built specifically for agentic workflows. What is Ceros built for? The problem Ceros addresses is practically faced by enterprises. For instance, enterprises deploying tools like Claude, Codex, or Copilot for coding and workflow automation are effectively granting agents the same privileges as human operators, but without equivalent oversight. These agents write code, call APIs, and interact with sensitive systems, often across long-lived…

People in this episode

Host: Richard Stiennon

Guest: Jasson Casey

Topics covered

• AI agents
• enterprise security
• identity and access management
• autonomous agents
• risk management
• visibility in security

Keywords

• AI agents
• enterprise security
• Ceros
• identity management
• risk
• autonomous agents
• visibility

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Beyond Identity, Ceros, IT-Harvest

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