As organizations hurry to embrace AI and its many benefits, one challenge weighs heavily on CISO and security teams’ minds: how do you quickly and effectively secure these new capabilities?

Today, Silverfort introduces AI Agent Security, our latest innovation designed to empower CISOs to lead secure AI adoption by treating AI agents as identities—governed, visible, and protected with the same rigor applied to human users.

The emerging risk: AI agents left to their own devices 

Gone are the days when only the most experimental companies adopted AI. Now, as executives across industries demand AI integration, it’s a business-critical priority. But while productivity soars, so do new risks.

One area these risks abound is with the use of AI agents: software programs that perform tasks autonomously or on behalf of a human, often making decisions and taking actions based on context or input data. To perform these tasks, AI agents require a level of access to systems, resources and data—just like human users.

And that’s where the problem lies. AI agents exist in the grey area between human and non-human identities. They need a different type of protection, because current identity and access management (IAM) solutions simply weren’t built for machines who could make their own decisions. They lack visibility and effective governance capabilities for AI agents, leading to a substantial risk of misuse by threat actors, not to mention potential compliance violations and limited auditability.

This creates a visibility and control vacuum. CISOs, developers, identity teams, urgently need solutions that seamlessly connect AI agents’ identities and privileges to the human actors behind them to ensure full visibility, compliance, and risk management at the speed of innovation. Yet they are expected to secure a rapidly expanding AI ecosystem using tools that were never designed for it.

Against a backdrop where expertise is still emerging, the pressure to move quickly is high, and AI agent behavior is evolving every day, it’s easy to see why the task at hand might feel impossible.

Our vision: Securing AI agents starts with treating them as an identity 

Luckily, there’s a way forward. Our method for securing AI is built on a simple premise: AI agents must be treated as identities and they should be tied to a person. At the core of this is a new definition of “who is doing the action”: not just a username or token, but the combined identity of the human and the AI agent acting on their behalf.

With this identity-first approach, we can automatically discover, classify and monitor AI agent identities before applying dynamic access policies to each of them and, crucially, tying them to their human initiators. This means we can protect all involved with robust, real-time security controls and prevent attackers from using AI agents in lateral movement.

This allows you to put governance and boundaries around autonomous agents and pull humans into the loop when appropriate, while protecting all involved with robust security controls. Even better, our unique identity-first architecture allows for a single, end-to-end view of every AI agent and MCP server in action in your environments while being quick to deploy and implement. This means Silverfort can limit AI agent misuse, privilege escalations, and unauthorized actions in your environments within hours of deployment.

 

In short, Silverfort’s AI Agent Security product:

• Discovers, classifies and monitors AI agents based on real-world behavior

• Ties every action to a responsible human to ensure accountability

• Enforces dynamic, least-privilege access policies tailored to each AI agent’s role

• Provides comprehensive auditability, enabling compliance in a shifting regulatory landscape

• Empowers organizations to securely adopt AI agents without requiring them to be AI experts

• Deploys rapidly to prevent key identity security threats in your environment with minimal effort

It’s the first solution that uses this unique architecture to reimagine identity security specifically for AI, significantly reducing the complexity and time required to safely and compliantly adopt AI technologies. With AI Agent Security, AI adoption is no longer a security compromise, but a secure, scalable strategy.

Built for businesses, backed by Silverfort 

We’re just getting started. As the landscape evolves, Silverfort will continue to lead the way in pioneering technologies that help security leaders stay ahead of the curve.

We’re actively inviting Silverfort customers to become design partners and help shape the future of AI identity security. If you’re leading AI adoption and need to secure it fast, we want to work with you. Find out more and get a demo. 

Source: Silverfort