Room Talk · 16 min
Zero Trust in the Age of Agents
Veridian's CISO on what changes for security when autonomous software becomes a user of your systems.
Key takeaways
- Treat every agent as a first-class identity with its own credentials.
- Never let an agent borrow a human's access.
- Speed of revocation is becoming a board-level metric.
Read the transcript
Host: What broke first when agents arrived?
Marcus O'Brien: The assumption that a human was on the other end of every request. Once that assumption goes, a lot of comfortable controls stop making sense.
Host: Does Zero Trust still apply?
Marcus O'Brien: More than ever. You just have far more identities to manage, and they move much faster than people do.
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