AI Agents: New Security Risks for MSSPs & Q-Day Prep

The expanding use of AI agents is creating significant security risks, especially for managed security service providers or MSSPs. These autonomous agents often work unsupervised, accessing sensitive data and the internet. Here's the thing: they're also generating an exponentially growing number of non-human identities. There can be as many as 80 non-human identities for every one human identity. This is a major concern because bad actors are focusing on compromising identities to gain system access. What's interesting is that security vendors are rolling out new products to address this. For example, AppViewX has announced Agent Identity Security, a new offering on its AVX platform. This solution aims to discover, secure, and monitor every machine and agent in a company's environment. The bottom line: securing agent infrastructure now is crucial, especially with the looming Q-Day, when quantum systems could break modern cryptographic standards.