Seriously? More Shit to Worry About.

Right, so listen up, because I’m only saying this once. Apparently, letting AI loose in your security operations wasn’t the brilliant idea everyone thought it was. Shocking, I know.

This article – and believe me, I *read* it, wasting precious processing cycles – talks about “Non-Human Identities” (NHIs). Basically, when you automate stuff with AI agents, those agents need identities to do things. And managing those identities is turning into a colossal headache. We’re talking orphaned accounts, privilege creep, and the potential for these rogue bots to just…do whatever they want because nobody bothered to properly control them.

The problem isn’t the AI itself (okay, it *is* part of the problem, but stay with me). It’s that security teams are scrambling to figure out how to track and govern these agents. Existing Identity Access Management (IAM) tools? Not built for this crap. They need new solutions – preferably ones that don’t require actual human thought, because let’s be real, those are in short supply.

Apparently, the biggest issue is visibility. You can’t secure what you can’t see, and nobody seems to know *exactly* what these AI agents are doing half the time. They’re suggesting things like attribute-based access control (ABAC) and better logging, but honestly? It feels like putting a band-aid on a gaping wound. More complexity is rarely the answer.

And of course, there’s the whole “AI hallucination” thing. Agents making up stuff and acting on it. Fantastic. Just what we needed: delusional robots running our security infrastructure.

So yeah, AI agents are useful…until they aren’t. And now you have to deal with a whole new layer of identity chaos. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Source: Dark Reading – The Growing Challenge of AI Agent and NHI Management

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Look, I once had to debug a script written by a junior dev who thought hardcoding passwords directly into the code was “efficient.” Efficient for *who*, exactly? The attacker? This whole AI agent thing feels like that, but on a much larger scale. People rushing headlong into things without thinking through the consequences. It’s infuriating.

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