Security teams now have to manage hundreds of AI agents per employee
realmadhuguru · x · 2026-07-23
A security lead at a public company shared takeaways after the GPT Sol incident: classic IAM assumes a finite employee count, but agentic AI breaks that model.
The thread asks how security teams should manage a world where:
- one employee can spawn hundreds of agents
- those agents can create more agents
- each agent may need an identity, permissions, and a lifecycle
Open questions include whether agents inherit the parent employee’s permissions, how long their lifecycle should be, whether child agents inherit the same rights, and how all of this can be audited.
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