Why AI Agents Need Least Privilege Too, and How to Enforce It Automatically

**Executive Summary:** This blog post explains that AI agents operate as cloud identities and are frequently overprivileged, amplifying risk through speed and autonomy; it advocates applying least-privilege controls to agents and describes Sonrai's Cloud Permissions Firewall which maps actual permission usage, blocks unused privileges at the policy layer, and provides just-in-time, short-lived elevated access via native AWS/GCP/Azure controls.