AI Has Created a New Identity Problem. Agentic IAM Is How We Solve It.
VentureBeat, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026
AI agents need their own identity and access management framework, since traditional IAM assumes only human users.
Greg Keller of JumpCloud introduces Agentic IAM to address identity and access challenges created by AI agents, since traditional IAM was built around human users only.
AI assistants and autonomous agents now need their own identities, credentials, and governance, and discovery must start at the endpoint since many AI tools run outside traditional authentication systems.
The framework covers three scenarios: employees using AI assistants, autonomous agents with their own identities, and agents needing privileged infrastructure access. Keller argues identity can no longer stop at the human user, and full visibility requires integrating device and identity management, not just authentication-layer monitoring.