Show Notes
Your team spent a decade maturing privileged access management. Then AI agents arrived and they don’t log in like humans. Now your biggest insider threat is an AI agent that lacks the access it needs, and then it goes to get it.
In this episode Sundari Parekh, VP of AI Security and Cyber Risk Advisory for TrendAI™, addresses a hard truth: PAM was never fully solved, and non-human identity and agentic AI are amplifying the gap. Her fix: stop building a separate AI team, upend your identity thinking, and shift from gatekeeping AI adoption to safely enabling it.
You'll learn:
Why 'least privilege' breaks down with agentic AI
Why non-human identity covers more than service accounts, and where the real exposure lies
How your existing PAM work is the agentic-identity head start most teams overlook
Why stick around:
Your already-stretched security team now supports an AI-native mandate. Sundari lays out how to govern the explosion of non-human identities before shadow AI does it for you.
Episode resources:
Sundari Parekh on LinkedIn
Johnny Hand on LinkedIn
TrendAI on LinkedIn
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