AI Agents Don't Have Identity — They Have Access. That's the Problem.

Most security teams are still applying human and machine identity frameworks to AI agents. It won't hold. Agents with memory, tool access, and the ability to spawn sub-agents operate in a fundamentally different threat space — and the credentials sitting in that memory are a live vulnerability right now.

In this episode, Oded Hareven, CEO and Co-Founder of Akeyless, breaks down why static entitlements and session tokens can't govern non-deterministic behaviour — and what a runtime authority model actually looks like in practice.

What's covered:

- Why credentials in agent memory aren't just a bad practice — they're game over (the Pocket OS breach shows exactly how)

- The architectural shift from identity to per-action, intent-aware authorisation

- How an AI gateway proxy gives you traceability, choke-point control, and ephemeral credential issuance — and why nothing else does

- Agent-to-agent delegation: how OAuth-style context passing should work, how it's being done dangerously wrong, and what accountability collapse looks like

- Why current IAM frameworks aren't mature enough for complex agentic architectures

Essential listening for CISOs, IAM architects, platform engineers, and anyone building or governing agentic AI in production.

Key Moments:

Mr NHI's Human Identity In The Hot Seat 1:40 – 12:38:

What makes AI agents fundamentally different from machines and humans? 13:00 – 17:00

Why credentials in agent memory are a critical security failure 17:00 – 20:00

The shift from identity to "runtime authority" — a new security paradigm 21:20 – 24:40.

The AI gateway proxy — how it works as a policy engine and kill switch 24:40 – 31:30

Agent-to-agent delegation: the governance time bomb 31:40 – 37:20

Are current frameworks mature enough for complex agentic architectures? 37:20 – 39:40

Akeyless's agentic runtime authority vision and what's coming 39:40 – 42:00

Key takeaways and where to start securing AI agents today 42:00 – 45:00

Closing thoughts and Identiverse 2025 preview 45:00 – 47:00

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