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AI agents are breaking your access controls. Are you prepared?

The Growing Risk of Authorization Bypass

Organizational AI agents are becoming deeply embedded across enterprises. They automate processes, connect systems, and act to accelerate operations at scale.

To be effective, these agents are granted broad, persistent permissions that exceed the access of any single user. They can read sensitive documents, query internal systems, trigger workflows, and interact with critical SaaS and cloud environments. 

Because the agent is acting under its own broad permissions, and not under the context of the individual user operating it, the agent can access and do more than the individual user is permitted to. Traditional access controls do not detect or flag such activities because they are executed under the agent’s legitimate access permissions. 

As a result, agents become powerful access intermediaries that bypass traditional permission boundaries.

Read more about this in our latest article, or schedule a conversation with one of our experts.

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