Agentic AI Management Challenges
techstrong.ai, Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Marta Dern Simon, senior product marketing manager at Oasis Security, discusses the emerging challenges of managing AI agents, particularly around permissions and security. She highlights the complexities of securing these agents as they expand organizational attack surfaces, emphasizing the need for proper oversight and the potential risks if security lags behind innovation.
In this interview, Marta Dern Simon, senior product marketing manager at Oasis Security, discusses the emerging challenges organizations face with the rise of AI agents. She emphasizes that these agents, while capable of autonomously executing tasks like human employees, should not be treated the same when it comes to identity and security.
Organizations must decide how to authenticate, manage, and monitor these agents, which significantly expand the attack surface and raise the risk of cyberattacks like 'agent jacking.' Marta suggests a hybrid approach: viewing agents as workloads with decision-making autonomy, while still ensuring they have appropriately scoped permissions.