Rubrik unveils Agent Identity to govern AI agents one tool call at a time

Rubrik has introduced Rubrik Agent Identity, a service designed to govern AI agents by granting access to tools one call at a time. The company showcased this service at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, expanding upon its existing Rubrik Agent Cloud platform. Agent Identity addresses the issue of AI agents inheriting broad permissions, which can lead to destructive actions if compromised.

The service works by monitoring agents in real-time, controlling access per tool call using fine-tuned models, and remedying risky actions through identity, audit logs, and Agent Rewind. Customers can start by building an inventory of active agents and scoped access to servers and tools using On-Behalf-Of federation, eliminating standing permissions by minting scoped, short-lived tokens for each tool call.

The service integrates with Okta and Microsoft's Entra ID, targeting a "shadow workforce" of unmonitored machine identities that are causing concerns among IT and security leaders about meeting recovery time objectives as agentic threats scale.

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