Extending Zero Trust to AI Agents: “Never Trust, Always Verify” Goes Autonomous

This sponsored article argues that Zero Trust must be extended to autonomous AI agents, describing risks from agentic identities and ‘excessive agency’ and recommending controls such as unique auditable identities for agents, least-privilege access, dynamic contextual enforcement, continuous monitoring, scoped short-lived tokens, tiered trust with human-in-the-loop for high-risk actions, access boundaries, and clear human ownership; it concludes with a call for CISOs to adopt identity-first AI security and offers Token Security services to help.