CyberArk Announces Secure AI Agents Solution to Protect Identity Security
Identity Security Challenges in the Age of AI
Millions of autonomous, unpredictable AI agents represent a new, rapidly expanding identity security attack surface. These agents act like humans in their autonomy, but like machines in their ability to scale exponentially. Managing and securing the privileged access, lifecycles, and orchestration of agents goes beyond prompt security to become an identity security challenge that demands a defense-in-depth approach.
CyberArk’s Secure AI Agents Solution
CyberArk, the global leader in identity security, today announced the CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution, which will allow organizations to implement identity-first security for agentic AI using the CyberArk Identity Security Platform. The solution will help organizations mitigate new and unique identity-centric risks as AI agents autonomously communicate with other agents, access sensitive information, escalate privileges, interact with critical infrastructure, and modify their behaviors to accomplish complex tasks.
Key Features of the Secure AI Agents Solution
- Discovery and Context to provide observability into known and shadow agents across SaaS applications, off-the-shelf and custom agents, and agentic infrastructure.
- Privilege Control: Secure Access Management, enforcing least privilege and managing credentials – such as secrets and certificates – for agents with privileged access.
- Privilege Control: Threat Detection & Response for real-time behavioral monitoring to detect drift and prevent misuse.
- Automated Lifecycle Management to help eliminate stale or excessive access, securely onboarding and offboarding the entire agentic population as needed.
- Governance to ensure AI Agents operate in compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
The Growing Threat of AI Agent Abuse
According to Gartner, “By 2028, 25% of enterprise breaches will be traced back to AI agent abuse, from both external and malicious internal actors.” This new, growing attack surface is tied to the emergence of a new, complex class of digital identities: AI agents that act like humans in their autonomy, but like machines in their ability to scale exponentially.
Securing the Future of Agentic AI
“When millions of autonomous, adaptable, and interactive AI agents gain privileged access to resources and services, organizations must not find themselves in a situation where security has lagged innovation. Relying solely on basic identity and access management controls will leave organizations vulnerable to breaches they won’t see coming,” said Matt Cohen, CEO at CyberArk. “Agents must be secured on day one by combining the principles of human identity security with the scalability and automation of machine identity security. With CyberArk, organizations can plan for an identity-first model to secure the future of agentic AI, unlocking innovation while maintaining control, trust, and resilience.”
Conclusion
The CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution is designed to treat each agent as a privileged, autonomous identity subject to continuous discovery, oversight, and adaptive control. By offering these capabilities natively, the solution will match the pace of innovation inherent to the agentic workforce. The Secure AI Agents Solution will enable organizations to implement identity-first security for agentic AI, mitigating new and unique identity-centric risks and ensuring the security of AI agents in the future.
FAQs
- Q: What is the CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution?
A: The CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution is a new solution designed to implement identity-first security for agentic AI using the CyberArk Identity Security Platform.
- Q: What are the key features of the Secure AI Agents Solution?
A: The key features of the Secure AI Agents Solution include discovery and context, privilege control, automated lifecycle management, and governance.
- Q: Why is AI agent abuse becoming a growing threat?
A: AI agent abuse is becoming a growing threat due to the emergence of a new, complex class of digital identities: AI agents that act like humans in their autonomy, but like machines in their ability to scale exponentially. This new attack surface is tied to the rapidly expanding identity security attack surface.
- Q: How can organizations secure the future of agentic AI?
A: Organizations can secure the future of agentic AI by implementing an identity-first model that combines the principles of human identity security with the scalability and automation of machine identity security, using solutions like the CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution.
