From Humans to Agents - Extending Identity Assurance into the Age of Autonomous AI

As enterprises adopt more AI-driven automation, autonomous agents, and delegation workflows, the boundary between human identities and machine identities is blurring - demanding new approaches to identity assurance, governance, and control. In this CISO panel, we’ll explore how leading security executives are adapting identity strategy to this next frontier.

Topics will include:

• How to credential, authenticate and constrain AI agents or delegated services without granting full human privileges
• Extending identity threat detection and response (ITDR) models to incorporate agent behaviors
• Establishing policy and governance boundaries for agent identity lifecycle and privilege delegation
• Balancing usability, trust and security when identities act on behalf of humans (e.g. “agentic workflows”)
• Real-world lessons: what early adopters are seeing — surprises, missteps, and what’s working

This session will help CISOs anticipate and architect their identity frameworks to include “trusted agents,” not merely users, and avoid creating identity blind spots in the age of AI.