AI agents are powerful - they can compress hours of work into seconds, trigger on events and run 24/7 services for your customers. The agent must then be secured - to control what it can do, what APIs it can call and on whose behalf it is acting.
AI agent security becomes more complicated when you consider that agents are a fundamentally different type of application. Unlike a person signing in, an agent makes autonomous decisions about which tools to trigger and which APIs to call. If you give it the same credentials as the user it represents, it may act outside your intended scope. Traditional IAM was not designed for this.
The aim of this ebook is to solve the AI agent security problem by exploring how to build the right foundation early, explaining the threats unique to agentic environments and recommending standards-based solutions built on OAuth 2.0 and modern identity principles.
