AI Agents and the Evolution of Lateral Movement in Cybersecurity

AI agents introduce new risks in lateral movement by autonomously exploring paths beyond traditional access controls, necessitating intent-based security measures. The article highlights how their persistence and ability to chain tools across systems challenge existing cybersecurity frameworks.

Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has?

A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May

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