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Abu Dhabi AI firm explores security concerns as AI agents act on users’ behalf
For years, when something went wrong inside a computer system, investigators could begin with a relatively simple question: which account did it? The Open Worldwide Application Security Project also introduced an Agent Control Standard this month, calling for AI agents to be inspectable and traceable, including visibility over what they can access, what they did and how their behaviour can.
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NIST argues that agents should instead increasingly be treated as “first-class entities”, with their own identifiers, credentials and permissions tied back to the person or system that authorised them.
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