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The Agent Smith Dilemma: Governing Agentic Identities
Every autonomous AI agent deployed across your enterprise today is a new proxy identity operating inside your perimeter.
Summary
Every autonomous AI agent deployed across your enterprise today is a new proxy identity operating inside your perimeter. For the past few years, North Korean operatives, posing as remote IT workers, systematically infiltrated hundreds of Western enterprise networks. They passed technical interviews, cleared background checks using stolen identities, and sat comfortably inside corporate trust boundaries with legitimate credentials. They drew salaries, funneled funds back to Pyongyang, and routinely exfiltrated sensitive data on their way out.
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