Traditional Access Control Cannot Govern AI Agents
HowDevelop · x · 2026-07-06
The author points out that traditional access control tools like IAM, DLP, and API gateways were designed for entirely different problems and cannot effectively govern the permissions and behaviors of AI agents (for instance, IAM only controls who can access a system). This underscores the urgent need for a new approach to security governance in the era of AI agents.
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