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Gartner on AI Agent Security: The Case for Runtime Authorization

Summary: AI agent security requires controls that govern what agents actually do, even when they have legitimate access. A new Gartner report makes the case for independent runtime authorization that evaluates agent actions as they happen. Here’s why traditional identity and secrets management fall short, and how Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority addresses the gaps. On […]

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EU AI Act Compliance: Mapping Identity Security Controls

The European Union’s AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence. It takes a risk-based approach, applying stricter obligations to AI systems that could significantly affect people’s safety or fundamental rights. The regulation entered into force on August 1, 2024, with requirements phased in over time. Some provisions are already enforceable, […]

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Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) and Just-in-Time (JIT) Access: The New Security Standard for the AI Era

Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) and Just-in-Time (JIT) access eliminate persistent credentials by granting access only when needed, for a specific task, and for a limited time.

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The Limits of Vaulting AI Agent Credentials

Quick Answer: Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 showed how a prompt-injected AWS AgentCore agent could steal and replay a credential even though it was securely stored in AgentCore Identity. The research exposes a broader problem with AI agent security: protecting credentials at rest and in transit is not enough if they become readable inside the […]

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Akeyless vs. BeyondTrust: Modernizing PAM for the Cloud Era

Explore BeyondTrust alternatives and learn how Akeyless unifies secrets, access, and encryption in a cloud-native PAM platform built on Zero-Knowledge security.

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Gartner on Machine IAM: Govern the Identity, Not the Credential

Quick Answer: Machine IAM shifts security from managing credentials as standalone objects to governing the identities of workloads and AI agents directly. That means establishing who or what is requesting access, issuing short-lived authority based on policy, and maintaining ownership and lifecycle context as those identities change. For autonomous agents, that model increasingly extends into runtime, […]

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Embracing a Secretless Approach with Akeyless

Key Takeaways Answer Capsule: What Is Secretless Authentication? Secretless authentication is an approach that lets machines, services, and applications authenticate to systems and each other without ever holding a static, storable secret, such as a hardcoded API key or a long-lived certificate. Instead, a workload proves its identity (through a cloud IAM role, a Kubernetes […]

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Cursor Secrets Management: How Akeyless Is Revolutionizing Developer Security

Cursor stores API keys in a local database any extension can read. Akeyless detects and secures hardcoded secrets without breaking your workflow.

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Rogue AI Agents Needed Exposed Credentials to Breach Hugging Face

700 rogue AI agents breached Hugging Face through exposed credentials. What the incident reveals about AI agent identity security.

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AI Agents Security in Claude with Akeyless

AI agent security usually stops at protecting credentials, but that's only half the problem. In a live demo with Akeyless, we gave a Claude Code agent full EC2 admin access, then tried to talk it into stopping a production server, even claiming CISO approval. Here's how Agentic Runtime Authority blocked it anyway, and why AI agent security has to govern actions, not just access.

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Gartner Is Right That You Can’t Substitute WPM for PAM, So Stop Choosing Between Them

Workforce password management (WPM) and privileged access management (PAM) tools both store credentials, but Gartner's July 2026 research concludes they cannot substitute for each other. WPM lacks privileged account discovery, automated service-account rotation, and session recording. PAM is too complex and costly for everyday workforce use. The Akeyless Identity Security Platform delivers purpose-built WPM and modern PAM on a single control plane, avoiding the substitution risk Gartner warns about.

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Not All Just-in-Time Access Is Created Equal: Why JIT Architecture Matters

Just-in-Time isn't just about temporary credentials. It's about eliminating standing privileges without introducing operational complexity, infrastructure overhead, or new trust assumptions. Here's how Akeyless approaches JIT differently, and why the underlying architecture matters just as much as the credentials themselves.