Artificial intelligence is changing how organizations operate, with AI agents increasingly capable of executing tasks, interacting with applications and making decisions with limited human intervention. Yet as enterprises embrace this new wave of automation, writes Muhammad El-Bassiony, Presales Manager, Mindware, an important security question is emerging: how do organizations ensure that autonomous systems have the right access, and nothing more?

Traditional identity and access management (IAM) was designed around relatively predictable behavior. Employees log in to access applications, service accounts perform predefined tasks, and machine identities communicate with known systems. AI agents challenge these assumptions.