The Death of Privilege in the Age of AI Agents

If you work in Privileged Access Management (PAM), you know that the job has never been glamorous.

It’s about eliminating clutter and root accounts that no one wants to own. These are service accounts that “just work” and are therefore never touched. And administrators who swear they need persistent access “just in case.”

Most PAM leaders have spent years slowly unraveling these identities into something resembling order. And for a while we made progress. We had fewer common rights, better controls and fewer exceptions.

But even with this progress, the identity of…