Britive, the platform making standing privilege obsolete for agentic AI, non-human, and human identities, today introduced Britive ARC, a new approach to securing AI agents as they move from assistants that answer questions to virtual workers that take action inside enterprise systems. Agentic Runtime Control gives AI agents intent-bound, task-scoped access only when work requires it, controls what they can do at runtime, and removes access when task is complete.
Enterprises are building a new kind of workforce. Alongside teams of people, employees increasingly have virtual teams of AI agents that query databases, call APIs, change infrastructure, and act on problems surfaced by other agents. Like human workers, those agents need authority to perform different jobs. Unlike human workers, they should not need privileged access sitting idle between tasks.
Traditional access models were built around people and predictable machine identities. AI agents are different: they perform specific tasks on behalf of people, services, or other agents, at machine speed. Standing privilege was risky for humans. For autonomous agents, it's reckless.
Britive ARC answers by tying access to work being performed. Each access grant is evaluated in context, including identity behind it, task, and scope required. When authorized, Britive provides only access needed, controls how it can be used while work runs, and removes it when task is complete.
Britive verifies agent and identity it acts for where applicable, evaluates intent and prompt context, provides only required access, observes activity while it runs, and removes access when no longer authorized or needed. Throughout transaction, Britive captures evidence of identities, requests, authorization decisions, privileges, actions, and outcomes. For agent tool calls, that can include prompt, tool, arguments, and where supplied, agent's stated intent.
"Most of the industry is focused on how to protect the credential an AI agent holds. We think that starts with the wrong assumption," said Art Poghosyan, CEO and co-founder of Britive. "The better question is why an agent should have privileged access to keep at all. Britive ARC ties privilege to the work being authorized. It can appear when the task requires it, remain under control while the work happens, and disappear when the work is done."
Britive ARC can elevate an agent's permissions directly inside target system without issuing agent a privileged credential to hold. For systems that require credentials, Britive can create and inject them at runtime and revoke them when task ends.
Control also continues after access is granted. Through Britive MCP Gateway, agent tool calls are evaluated against centralized policy at runtime before unauthorized actions are executed on downstream systems. Where Britive sits in connection path to resource, enforcement can extend to individual SSH commands and SQL statements. An agent authorized to read from a database, for example, can still be stopped from performing unauthorized destructive action.
Authorization can also change while work is underway. Shared Signals Framework events, including CAEP and RISC signals, can trigger additional enforcement or revoke active session as conditions change.
"One of the biggest barriers to moving agentic AI into production is knowing how to secure it," said Chris Rasco, Head of AI/ML Platforms, Atlanta-based Financial Services Company. "Britive's approach addresses a foundational part of that problem: giving agents only the access they need for the task, when they need it, without leaving standing access behind. Bringing agent access into the same platform used to manage human and non-human access provides the kind of foundation enterprises need to move from experimentation into production with confidence."
Britive ARC is available today on Britive platform, with capabilities spanning AI agent discovery and governance, runtime tool-call authorization through Britive MCP Gateway, runtime elevation, access enforcement, on-behalf-of delegation, and signal-driven revocation. Architecture is reflected in Britive's selection by AWS for inclusion in AWS Security Hub Extended.
About Britive
Britive is the runtime authorization platform for every identity that runs the modern enterprise: AI agents, non-human identities, and people. Instead of managing standing accounts and long-lived credentials, Britive creates privilege at the moment an authorized action requires it and removes it when the work is done, across clouds, SaaS applications, databases, servers, and systems that still depend on traditional credentials. One policy model, one audit trail, and one platform govern every identity type, with no endpoint software to deploy.
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