AI agents need their own identity before they need a gateway

Enterprise AI has entered a new era. Organizations are rapidly moving beyond assistants that answer questions to autonomous agents capable of reasoning, invoking tools, accessing enterprise applications, coordinating with other agents, and completing multi-step business workflows with minimal human intervention.This shift represents a fundamental change in how software operates. Traditional applications execute predefined logic written by developers. AI agents, however, dynamically determine how to achieve an objective. They decide which tools to use, which APIs to call, what information to retrieve, and how to sequence actions based on context. That flexibility unlocks enormous business value, but it also introduces a new class of security risks.Much of today's AI security discussion focu…