AI Agent Identity Framework: Teleport's Production Security Blueprint
Production AI agents should not run on borrowed human tokens, static API keys, or broad service accounts. A useful AI agent identity framework gives every agent a short-lived identity, task-scoped authority, isolated runtime, model access controls, and an audit trail that connects prompts to infrastructure actions. I have found that most agent security discussions start too late. They inspect logs after the agent has already called a tool, touched a database, or opened a production shell. That is not enough once agents move from Slack demos into deployment workflows, incident response, data analysis, or infrastructure automation. ...