--- title: AI Agents Broke the Security Playbook. Here's What... description: Traditional enterprise security models assumed environments changed at human speed, but AI agents have broken that assumption. Agents act autonomously, borrow... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-broke-the-security-playbook-here-s-what-replaces-it--vycnppctg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Agents Broke the Security Playbook. Here's What Replaces It. | daily.dev og:description: Traditional enterprise security models assumed environments changed at human speed, but AI agents have broken that assumption. Agents act autonomously, borrow... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-broke-the-security-playbook-here-s-what-replaces-it--vycnppctg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vYCnppcTG.png og:image:alt: AI Agents Broke the Security Playbook. Here's What Replaces It. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Agents Broke the Security Playbook. Here's What Replaces It. **[BleepingComputer](https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Traditional enterprise security models assumed environments changed at human speed, but AI agents have broken that assumption. Agents act autonomously, borrow human credentials, and can appear and disappear faster than inventory scans. The piece argues that the old build-vs-buy framing is obsolete and proposes a new model: buy a live identity foundation (continuous discovery, normalization, access mapping) and build the operational layer (custom workflows, reports, remediations) on top of it. Identity is positioned as the only control plane that truly governs agentic AI, since it determines what an agent can reach rather than just what it can say. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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