Defining Agentic Identity Security Platforms (AISP): Security for the Age of AI Agents 

AI agents are already acting inside your cloud, querying systems, making decisions, and triggering workflows. But very few organizations have security models that account for how these agents behave. 

Agentic Identity Security Platforms (AISP) are emerging not as a niche toolset, but as a strategic imperative for CxOs tasked with securing tomorrow’s workforce, digital, human, and every combination in between. 

What Is AISP and Why Does It Matter? 

In their research note, Aragon defines AISP as essential infrastructure for organizations deploying AI agents and agentic systems. 

AI agents are not static scripts or bots with limited actions. They’re autonomous actors. They collaborate, reason, and take action across your cloud environment. 

But unlike humans, they can’t be gated with MFA. Unlike service accounts, they don’t follow static patterns and use tools on the fly to complete requests. 

And unlike legacy systems, their scale and scope are growing exponentially across departments, data sources, and workflows. They operate with machine-scale speed and unpredictability. 

Without real-time, context-aware access controls, these agents create an “Access-Trust Gap,” which describes the space between what an AI agent can do and what they should be allowed to do. 

As that gap grows, so are the risks. Over-permissioning, data leaks, lateral movement, prompt-driven attacks, and AI misuse becomes top of mind. 

AISP isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a strategic necessity. 

The Six Pillars of an Agentic Identity and Security Platform 

Every AISP must include the following capabilities: 

• Agent Identity & Access Management: The ability to define, track, and authenticate autonomous agents. 
• Data and Knowledge Protection: Prevent sensitive data misuse via exploits such as prompt injection or indirect access. 
• Agent Operational Integrity and Resilience: Ensure agents act within safe bounds, even when communicating and orchestrating with other tools. 
• Agentic Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): Apply policy and controls for audit, regulation, and trust. 
• Runtime Policy Enforcement: Authorize access dynamically based on intent, context, and allowed behavior. 
• Human Oversight, Accountability, and Attribution: Maintain accountability with approvals, logging, and action traceability. 

Together, these capabilities allow organizations to apply Zero Trust principles like Just-in-Time access and least privilege, not just to users and service accounts, but to AI agents, as well. 

Why Britive’s Pioneering Efforts Were Recognized in AISP 

Britive’s foundation as a cloud-native, agentless, and API-first platform was built to solve identity sprawl across humans and machines. 

Today, it seamlessly extends these controls to AI agents by delivering: 

• Ephemeral, task-based access for agentic workflows 
• Dynamic policy enforcement based on behavior, context, risk, and intent.  
• A unified access control plane across multi-cloud, hybrid, and SaaS environments 
• Native support for emerging protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP), and other emerging AI orchestration standards to enable fine-grained access for AI systems 

Britive isn’t just adapting to AI. We’re helping define how to secure it. AISP: Enabling Zero Trust for AI, Now 

Zero Trust isn’t just about human access anymore. In the age of AI, every autonomous system becomes a potential insider. 

Agentic Identity and Security Platforms offer a clear, actionable way to enforce least privilege, gain visibility, and reduce risk without waiting for complete security re-architecture. 

The shift to AI-powered operations is already underway. The time to establish strong foundations for security is now. 

Download a complimentary copy of the research note to learn how AISP is shaping the next chapter of enterprise security.