AI Agent Identities
AI agents act as non-human principals — holding credentials, invoking tools, and delegating tasks to other agents — at a volume and velocity traditional IAM was never built to scope or revoke.
This category covers agent identity issuance, capability scoping, and delegation-chain controls: the non-human-identity layer underneath every autonomous action an agent takes.
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What AI Agent Identities covers
The subcategories, in practitioner terms.
Non-human identity inventory
Continuous enumeration of agents, their credentials, and their permission scopes.
Capability scoping & short-lived credentials
Least-privilege, time-boxed access replacing broad standing service accounts.
Delegation-chain & behavioral monitoring
Visibility into agent-to-agent delegation and detection of runtime authorization drift.
Compliance mappingMaps to NIST IR 8596's autonomous-principal and permissions concepts, the CSA AI Controls Matrix's IAM and Governance/Risk/Compliance domains, the OWASP Agentic Security Top 10's identity/privilege-abuse and rogue-agent risks, and ISO 42001 Annex A.9 (use of AI systems).
Category structure adapted from the AI Defense Matrix by Lenny Zeltser and Sounil Yu, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. For a broader view of the vendor landscape, see the AI Defense Matrix Catalog.
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