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title: "Who Approved This Agent? Rethinking Access, Accountability, and Risk in the Age of AI Agents"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/who-approved-this-agent-rethinking-access-accountability-and-risk-in-the-age-of-ai-agents-nufrfze1v
source_url: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/who-approved-this-agent-rethinking.html
type: article
source: "The Hacker News"
published: 2026-01-24T08:41:24.759Z
updated: 2026-01-24T08:41:45.421Z
tags: ["ai", "security", "enterprise", "iam"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
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# Who Approved This Agent? Rethinking Access, Accountability, and Risk in the Age of AI Agents

**[The Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/thn)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

AI agents fundamentally break traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) models by operating with delegated authority across multiple users and systems. Unlike human users or service accounts, agents accumulate broad, persistent permissions without clear ownership, creating authorization bypass risks. Organizational agents—shared across teams with no defined owner—pose the highest risk. Securing them requires establishing clear ownership, mapping user-to-agent-to-system relationships, and treating agents as distinct high-risk entities rather than extensions of users or automation processes.

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