Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care

Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care
Traditional identity and access management was designed for human logins and fails in a world where AI agents and machine identities drive over 90% of authentications. Enterprises need an application-centric, runtime authorization model using short-lived, context-rich tokens and standards like OAuth 2.0, a gap Curity Access Intelligence aims to close. #CurityAccessIntelligence #OAuth2

Keypoints

  • Traditional IAM assumes one-time authentication and a single human identity.
  • Non-human identities and AI agents now handle the majority of authentications and act across API chains.
  • Treating agents as persistent directory identities causes rapid identity sprawl and orphaned permissions.
  • Authorization must be application-centric and evaluated continuously with just-in-time, least-privilege tokens.
  • Existing standards like OAuth 2.0, token exchange, and dynamic client registration enable runtime, scoped authorization without replacing infrastructure.

Read More: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/27/ai-agents-access-control-model/