Cloud PAM for AI Agents: Why Traditional PAM Can’t Protect Agentic Workloads

This Sonrai blog post argues that AI agents represent high-risk cloud identities because they are often provisioned with over‑privileged IAM roles, operate without human session checkpoints, and can propagate permissions across machine-to-machine call chains; it contends that traditional PAM, behavioral analysis, and existing CIEM/CNAPP tools are insufficient and recommends org-level least-privilege enforcement, automated JIT permission grants, and Sonrai's Cloud Permissions Firewall to inventory identities and enforce cloud-native controls.