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The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents is creating a powerful new class of identities that require privileged access, introducing novel security risks. To address this emerging threat, CyberArk, the global leader in identity security, has announced the general availability of the CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution, the industry's first identity security solution purpose-built with privilege controls to secure AI agents.
CyberArk launches the first identity security solution purpose-built for AI agents.
The solution applies privilege controls like just-in-time access and least privilege to autonomous AI.
It addresses risks like agent hallucinations, misuse, and malicious takeover.
Research shows 76% of organizations will adopt AI agents in 3 years, but fewer than 10% have adequate security controls.
The solution provides comprehensive agent discovery, secure access, and real-time threat detection.
It extends CyberArk's Identity Security Platform to cover human, machine, and AI identities.
AI agents are emerging as a privileged identity class, often requiring elevated permissions to automate tasks and access sensitive systems. This introduces unique risks, including agent hallucinations and potential takeover by malicious actors. The CyberArk Secure AI Agents Solution addresses these challenges by ensuring AI agents operate with only the access they need, when they need it, and nothing more. This privilege-focused approach is critical, as new CyberArk research reveals that while AI agent adoption is expected to reach 76% within three years, fewer than 10% of organizations currently have adequate security and privilege controls in place.
The new solution extends the proven capabilities of the CyberArk Identity Security Platform to autonomous AI agents. It delivers comprehensive agent discovery to automatically detect AI agents across SaaS, cloud, and developer environments. It enforces secure access with strong authentication and zero standing privileges, and provides real-time threat detection by continuously monitoring for anomalies and unauthorized activity. This creates a unified security model that governs human, machine, and AI identities with the same rigor, enabling organizations to scale AI-driven automation confidently while maintaining security and compliance.
“As organizations embrace AI agents, both builders and defenders must understand how identity-centric risks evolve when agents require elevated privileges,” said Matt Cohen, CEO, CyberArk. “Without strong discovery, robust privilege controls, and comprehensive lifecycle management, organizations risk losing visibility and opening the door to catastrophic agentic attacks. CyberArk uniquely secures the full spectrum of identities — humans, machines and AI agents — by applying the right level of privilege controls, enabling innovation while maintaining security and compliance.”
The research further underscores the urgency, with two-thirds of CISOs in financial services and software ranking agentic AI among their top three cybersecurity risks, and more than one-third citing it as their top concern.
By applying a privilege-first security model to AI agents, CyberArk provides the critical controls needed for enterprises to innovate safely and mitigate the risks associated with this powerful new technology.
CyberArk is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With CyberArk, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere.
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