Security
Black Hat 2025: Securing Identities With Zero Trust in the Age of AI
Agentic artificial intelligence is a useful tool that can perform autonomous tasks. These AI agents have their own digital identities that allow them to move through an ecosystem to perform those tasks. However, this presents major challenges when it comes to identity and access management.
BizTech spoke with three experts at Black Hat 2025 in Las Vegas about the challenges agentic AI poses for IAM and why a zero-trust strategy is more important today than ever before to keep companies and their data secure.
READ MORE: Navigate identity and access management in the era of AI.
To access all of our coverage from Black Hat 2025, click here, and follow us on the social platform X at @BizTechMagazine, as well as the official conference account, @BlackHatEvents.
Participants
Video Highlights
- Zero trust ensures that if a user is compromised, there are fewer avenues for bad actors to attack.
- A common pitfall that organizations run into is approaching human and machine identities in the same way. Access control policies and governance models within a company’s cybersecurity strategy should treat human and machine identities differently to account for their different behaviors.
- Visibility and zero trust go hand in hand. Companies should have a complete list of identities mapped to the assets and applications they use so they can determine if an identity — whether human or machine — is accessing something they shouldn’t.
Related Videos
