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The Agentic Insider: Zero Trust Design for AI Agents That Act on Human Authority
The article examines the emerging risk of 'agentic insiders'—autonomous AI agents operating with delegated human authority—and prescribes architectural controls: task-scoped identities, short-lived credentials, runtime isolation (default-deny sandboxes), MCP gateways, immutable logging and dynamic, graduated responses to contain abuse and limit blast radius.
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