Why Reducing AI Risk Starts With Treating Agents As Identities
CyberArk, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
As AI systems are used in our day-to-day operations, a central reality becomes unavoidable: AI doesn't configure itself and must be set up with human approval and oversight. It requires engineers and developers to configure it.
Developers need privileges to access and implement components, agents, tools, and features of the platforms.
But developers don't just have these privileges unconstrained. right?
Where trust and privileges exist, someone will try to abuse them. The real risk in AI environments is not only the model, but also the identities and privileges used to configure and operate it.