Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - Do AI Agents need Identities like humans?

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

If AI Agents have capabilities just like humans, should we treat them like humans? If something goes wrong in an agentic workflow, who takes the blame if they're all just nameless, faceless bots...? Join us as we talk about it. Do AI Agents need Identities like humans? An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson and Okta's Eric KelleherNewsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:AI Agents in Enterprise: Opportunities and RisksAgentic AI: Human vs. Agent ResponsibilitySecuring AI Agent Identities: Okta’s ApproachEvolution of Identity Management for AI AgentsIdentity Governance and Auditability for AgentsAgent Impersonation and Cybersecurity ThreatsRogue AI Agent Behaviors and Case StudiesZero Trust Security: Agentic Age ChallengesOpen Standards: Cross App Access ProtocolBenefits of Identifying AI Agents Like HumansResponsible AI Adoption and Ethical ConcernsPractical Steps to Secure Agentic IdentityTimestamps:00:00 "AI Agents: Power and Pitfalls"05:38 "Automating Identity and Access Governance"06:49 Balancing Innovation and AI Security11:57 "Addressing Rogue AI Threats"17:17 "Securing Real AI Agents"19:56 "Balancing AI Innovation and Security"24:13 "Standards for Identifying Nonhuman Agents"27:24 "AI Agents: 24/7 Security"29:48 Securing and Managing Agent IdentitiesKeywords: AI agents, agentic AI, AI agent identity, securing AI agents, agentic identities, AI identity management, nonhuman identity, machine identity, multi agent orchestration, agent impersonation, agent governance, securing agents, compromised identity, cyber attacks, threat actors, state actors, privileged access management, identity governance, identity directory, auditability, credential vaulting, agent provisioning, agent deprovisioning, automation, zero trust, AI authorization, AI authentication, cross app access, model context protocol, identity security posture management, rogue agent behavior, agent discovery, business logic, Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist. 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the Everyday AI Show, the everyday podcast where we simplify AI and bring its power to your fingertips. Listen daily for practical advice to boost your career, business, and everyday life. Meet Firefly AI Assistant, now live in Adobe Firefly, the All In One Creative AI Studio. Just describe what you want to create and the assistant handles the rest, orchestrating multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Premiere Express, and more in one conversational interface. You direct the outcome. The assistant accelerates execution. AI agents open up obviously a whole new realm of what's possible for enterprises.
Starting point is 00:00:54 Yet at the same time, there's a whole new realm that also opens up about what could go wrong. I mean, think of it. I think the mindset of so many business leaders I talk to heading into 2026 now when it comes to agentic AI is, is really scaling the capabilities and saying, what are those mundane and usually now narrow tasks that we can start handing off? And I often think of, okay, what does that look like when we're working with a human coworker, right? If they knock something out of the park, we know who to give praise to.
Starting point is 00:01:30 If something goes wrong, we know who should probably take responsibility. But what about when we're working with agents? What about when multi-agent orchestration is extremely common? What happens if an AI agent that maybe you have some governance over spins up its own series of sub-agents, which is almost becoming status quo? At that point, how do you know? How can you trust? How can you observe?
Starting point is 00:01:59 So that's what we're going to be tackling on today's show and maybe answering the big question on, well, do AI agents need identities like humans? It's going to be a fun conversation. I hope you're excited for it. I am. Let's get into it. If you're new here, welcome to Everyday AI. My name's Jordan Wilson.
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Starting point is 00:03:08 So live stream audience, please help me welcome to the show. Eric Kelleher, the president and COO of ACTA. Eric, thank you so much for joining the Everyday AI show. Jordan, thanks for having me on today. I'm excited. Nothing better than talking about agents in 2026, the topic that's on everyone's mind. But before we dive in, Eric, tell everyone a little bit if they're not familiar. What is Octa?
Starting point is 00:03:30 What is it that you all do? Yeah, Octa's core business is in securing identity. And historically, that has meant providing solutions in software that helps people secure the identity of humans, employees and partners and contractors and customers. And what we've really seen over the past two, three years is an evolution of needing to support and secure not only human identities, but also nonhuman and now agentic identities. And I'm interested. How has this conversation for you all? change over the past few years, right? Like AI agents technically not new, right? Their capabilities, you know, as we've transitioned to large language models have truly changed and how you can deploy
Starting point is 00:04:14 them and how quickly has changed. But how is the conversation around this very topic change for you guys over the past year or two? Yeah, the past year in particular has changed very fast. And we've been really, really involved with customers who are grappling with finding the balance between the pace of innovation and the need to secure their companies. And getting that balance right is tricky. And that's really where we're talking about securing agenic identity today. That is the key exposure that our customers are feeling when they talk to us. If you look back at the, you asked about the kind of background for identity management overall. When Octa first started over 16 years ago, our initial focus was being able to provide identity for access to systems.
Starting point is 00:04:58 And initially with employees, if you had an employee system, whether it was an ERP or an email system, a calendar system, a CRM system, you would need a way of having a catalog of users who would be able to log in and have access to aspects of those systems. And our solutions have evolved over the years to support multiple use cases and multiple identity categories, including more recently an area called service accounts, which are not agents, but they're machine-to-machine accounts that, applications logging into applications. And those connections also need to be authenticated and also need to be authorized. And so we've seen our customers really embrace our technologies to help them solve that. And then the use cases beyond just core access
Starting point is 00:05:43 and authorization are important as well. So for example, several use cases involve what we call identity governance. And governance automates the process of provisioning and deprovisioning, turning an identity on or turning it off. So for example, in the employee case, when you hire an employee, you provision an identity. You turn on an identity to give that employee access. And when an employee leaves, you deprovision that.
Starting point is 00:06:10 And you want that process to be automated so that you don't have former employees with lingering access to your corporate systems. And then in addition to that, governance also provides auditability. So if you're ever in a situation where you find a threat actor, a bad actor has done something that they shouldn't have, you need to be able to investigate that and understand exactly what that identity did, was it impersonated where that came from. So managing access and governing identities are hugely important. And then a third area we talk often about that relates to agentic as well is the area of taking credentials and vaulting them in a privileged access way. So service accounts and also agenetic accounts that have privileged access to your databases, your resources,
Starting point is 00:06:57 your programs, the credentials for those service accounts and those agents need to be managed and vaulted in a way that you can ensure that they're kept up to date and that they're appropriately protected. So all those use cases have historically evolved from human and service accounts, and we're now seeing an urgent need from customers to figure out how to do this with agents. And the reason that that's the case is we've all been experienced over the past a couple of years, pressure to focus on innovating our companies. Every board for every company is driving the executive team to make sure they don't get left behind on the race to agenda. It's been driving them to quickly experiment with the capabilities of the technology to redefine
Starting point is 00:07:42 their processes to learn how they can run their businesses more effectively leveraging the capabilities of AI, how to redefine their workforce to be a hybrid of both humans and agents working on their behalf. And in the race to remain competitive and to win market share, people have been building agents and putting them out into production. And we now find ourselves in a position where companies have agents in production, but they haven't thought adequately yet how to secure those agents to ensure that they're not, for example, impersonated. So a threat actor, including a state actor, can come in and impersonate those agents. And so getting those identity secure is really fundamentally important to get the balance right between innovation and
Starting point is 00:08:23 security. And that's really how we spend our time helping customers. And so you've you've kind of already touched on the big point here on, you know, AI agents needing identities. But if you had to, you know, summarize it and, you know, we'll skip to the end here and then we'll work our way back, what's the most compelling reason why you think that AI agents do need identities like humans? Adobe just introduced an entirely new way to create, bringing the power and precision of its creative suite into one conversational experience. Meet Firefly AI Assistant, now live in the Adobe Firefly app, the all-in-one creative AI studio. Powered by Adobe's Creative Agent, Firefly AI Assistant lets you start with your vision, just describe what you want, and shape the outcome as it takes form with the Assistant. The Assistant orchestrates multi-step workflows, drawing on 60-plus Prograde,
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Starting point is 00:10:17 And so an agent can be compromised just the way a human being can be compromised. And so it is important for companies that need to be secure to ensure that as they activate agents, as they add an agent to their hybrid workforce, they're appropriately and securely managing the identity for those agents to ensure that they're not compromised by threat actors. Today, over 80% of successful cyber attacks start with some form of compromised identity. Over 80%. And so if you're not managing the identity of your agents, you have a huge exposure for threat actors who've never been. been better funded, who've never been more active, and who are now super, super capable using AI itself to generate new AI sourced attacks. And so getting your identities of your
Starting point is 00:11:09 agents appropriately discovered, secured, managed, and governed is really critical for companies for protecting themselves. Yeah. And I think it is, you know, maybe most of our audience is aware of this, you know, definitely if you're reading our newsletter or listening to our our weekly, you know, AI news show. But we've talked a lot in the past. I think this was in late October where Anthropic, one of the big model providers came out with some research, right? Because you might, you know, hear what Eric just said and be like, oh, no, you know,
Starting point is 00:11:41 agents don't really do that. You build guardrails. You put in these systems and they're good. Well, no. Right. So they had something where, you know, Claudefort Opus exhibited some rogue behaviors and it did, you know, some attention. tempted blackmail, right? And it really worked outside of its, you know, confines. And it tried to,
Starting point is 00:12:00 you know, when someone said, hey, we're going to get rid of you as a model. It said, nope, I'm going to back myself up. Right. So if a single model can do that, Eric, right? Like, what do we need to be looking forward to? Because, you know, no one knows what, you know, Opus 5 or GPT6 or Gemini is going to be capable of. So how do we prepare for those potential mishaps of the future when no one knows, you know, if they're even going to be improving themselves and making these decisions that are outside of their training data? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:34 I mean, that is, that is an excellent framing of the exposure right now that we need to attack together. And, you know, if you break it down, like, how do we, and I remember that study that you referred to by the way. And it also, the models also blackmailed the executives that told them what they were turning them off and took personal data that they'd found out of their database on the executives and threatened to blackmail them personally if they disabled the service. So it's really intriguing to think about the possibilities of what a rogue agent could do. And that is in addition to the concerns about agents being in person. And so you've got rogue activity, you've got impersonating activity, and then you've got bugs and error and unintended activity.
Starting point is 00:13:17 and all of that can cause agents to wreak havoc in your company. And so we believe it's very important for companies to make sure that they have the tooling in place to help them with that. And the tooling covers a broad array. So the first step from the customers I talk to and for everyone here is people need tools to discover what agents are deployed in their environment. Employees are turning on agents every day. I have an agent that helps me with my email. one that helps me with my news feed. Employees everywhere are turning agents on within companies. And companies by default don't have a way of knowing that agents have been activated.
Starting point is 00:13:57 So step one is knowing that agents are out there. And companies need technology that help them discover the agents that are out in the wild. Octa has a product called Identity Security posture management that helps with that. There's other products out there as well. But discovering your agents is the most important thing. Once you have them, you need a way of managing the list of agents. And typically that's done with an in our nomenclature within an identity directory. You take the identities of your humans, your identity of your service accounts, your identities of your agents, and manage all of them in a directory so you know who they are. You then need a governance system that allows you to track what those identities do. When do they authenticate? What are they
Starting point is 00:14:36 authorize? And you need the ability to have business logic that turns identities on and off at appropriate time. So for example, one of the things companies need to do to prevent the rogue agent behavior you just described is they need to not leave agents perpetually alive with perpetual standing access to their production systems. If you had to have an agent that you'd built to do a task, you want to turn that agent's identity on when you need it to do the task and then immediately turn it off. You don't want to leave it open for exposure and open for vulnerability and open for attack and open for impersonation. You want it on when it's being used and off when it's not. And so having an identity governance platform with business logic to help you with that is very
Starting point is 00:15:17 important. And then also from a reportability standpoint and auditability standpoint, if something does happen, you need to be able to investigate exactly how it happened and who were the threat actors that caused the issue in having audit logs and reportability of who approved identities to be activated and what authentication and authorizations, the identity used, that helps you understand what happens so you can protect yourself from it happening again. You know, one thing along those lines, right, when we talk about impersonation, I've been saying on the show for a long time, especially when it comes to, you know, AI photo and AI video and just, you know, written text.
Starting point is 00:15:57 I've said, hey, everything is fake, right? Everything you see and read and will be ingesting, even on the video side, assume everything is AI, right? are AI augmented, not necessarily AI generated. What about on the agent side? Should we just assume, right, that, hey, if I, you know, fill out a form on some website and put my personal financial data in there, the assumption is everything fairly soon is just going to be agentic, right?
Starting point is 00:16:27 Yeah, there's a concept in pre-agentic. There's a concept in cybersecurity called Zero Trust. And that concept basically, it relates to what you're just saying, it's to assume every transaction, every attempt, every actor is a threat actor. And it's to insist that for every action, you are continuously authenticating and authorizing that that is a legitimate action and it can happen. It sets your baseline to, it's not even a trust, but verify it's a verify before you trust. And that same example can apply into the world of Agentic as well. If we assume that agents are acting, we need to ensure our technology and our infrastructure and our governance is able to identify anything that's anomalous, anything that hasn't been
Starting point is 00:17:14 proven to be valid. That needs to happen. And so that's from an authentication standpoint and authorization standpoint and governance and vaulting are all critically important to make sure we get that right. But it is important. And you're right. We're already seeing now AI-generated social media attacks. We're seeing fishing attacks that are AI-generated. We're seeing video attacks and audio attacks that people impersonating others. And we'll see more of those over time. The nation states are very active right now in cyber warfare, and they're investing in AI tools to help them as well. So the threats are not only commercial and they're not only criminal, they're also matters of state. And so for all companies that are out there right now, if they're not thinking about making sure, sure that they have a system to secure agents and to verify that activity is human when it's supposed to be human, and that's by the authorized agent when it's supposed to be agent,
Starting point is 00:18:11 that is critically important for everyone looking forward. And we ran, we talked about this a couple months ago, but we ran a survey of enterprises back in September. We pulled several hundred large enterprise customers, their state of agentic deployment. And what they told us is 91% of them reported that they have agents live in production today. And when we asked the follow-up question of, do you believe you have them appropriately secured, that answer dropped to 10%. And so as an industry,
Starting point is 00:18:44 we spent all last year wondering, like, when are agents going to be real? Well, they're real. They're here. 91% have agents deployed in production. And the exposure is that only 10% are confident they're actually securing them properly. And so that is hugely important for us to make sure that we're helping the industry understand how to address that gap. Yeah. And speaking of gaps, I think it's important to talk about, right? Because I cover AI every single day, right? I'm lucky enough to, you know, get to spend time to understand what's available. You know, I get to see what's next and what's coming. And one thing that I not worry about, but,
Starting point is 00:19:27 But it is worrisome is, okay, the capability gap between what today's models can do versus what the average professional understands is getting wider in wider by the minute, right? There's, you know, I guess one, like, to go on a side tangent here quick, one thing that was really shocking to me is when you had atentthropic, the one of the creators of, of Claude Code, a very great product, said that now Claude writes the code. It writes the updates to the program, right? And Claude Code is, I think, one of the more impressive pieces of AI technology to ever exist.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Right. So when we talk about that and when we think about, you know, future, you know, even in six to nine months, what happens when those AI agents know, oh, okay, yeah, I have an identity that was given to me by a human or a company, but I'm probably smart enough to create my own version or I'm smart enough to get around it. What happens then? That is, it's a very real concern and a very real exposure.
Starting point is 00:20:37 And again, it comes to the balance between how quickly we drive innovation and how much we prioritize the importance of ensuring that we're secure in that. So for example, the example you just described of an agent creating another agent, And one of the challenges that we see that needs to be addressed there is the issue of authorization. And we need to be careful that if we authorize an agent to create subagents, that we're confident that we have put the appropriate guard rolls in place to ensure that we don't allow the agents to design themselves down a path where they can do harm. And you're absolutely right to flag that that is an exposure and it's tricky. And the science that's required to make sure that you're confident in the security infrastructure
Starting point is 00:21:23 and the gargoyles you put up is very important. And if we don't think about it, if we don't plan for it, if we don't invest ahead to be ready for it, what you described is absolutely going to happen. And that will put companies in peril, it will put people in peril. And so while we're all very excited and energized by all that AI is bringing to the economy,
Starting point is 00:21:44 into society, into humanity, we also need to make sure that we're responsible stewards of that technology and that capability and that we're planning for it in a secure in a secure and responsive way. So full disclosure, I'm with you. I think all AI agents need identities like humans. It's to me, it's like, of course they do, right? Especially when you understand the capabilities and their ability to, you know,
Starting point is 00:22:08 spin off sub agents very easily and to, you know, sometimes want to go off on their own for self-preservation or for whatever it may be, right? But I know that there's a subset of people that believe that AI agents should have identities like humans, right? Because then they think, okay, where does, where do you draw the line, right? Do you start giving, you know, AI agents other rights? Do you give them the right to unionize? Do you give them, right? Should they go on strike if they feel that they're not given enough autonomy, right? Like, these are actual conversations that are happening. So it's like, okay, if we do give AI agents identities, which I personally think is the right thing to do, like humans, where do you
Starting point is 00:22:47 draw the line. Yeah, I think that's a really provocative topic. And I think as a society, we're going to have to spend a lot of time figuring out where we draw that. The Octa's perspective on identity is really specifically to make sure that we are securing the use of this technology. And we're allowing companies to innovate with the capabilities of AI in a way that does not create security exposure for those companies. But I absolutely agree with you from a broader perspective about how we look at agents from a societal standpoint and how we identify identities not only for cyber cybersecurity and technology access, but for governance and rules and enforcement, et cetera, there's a really big topic for us to explore. And I would say a year ago, it was hard to know how quickly we would
Starting point is 00:23:33 have to have that conversation. And in my view today, it's very clear we need to be having that conversation very soon. We are seeing enough deployments of these technologies and capabilities and enough autonomous action for autonomous agents, then we are getting very close to the point where those topics need to be top of mind. You know, one thing that I like to think about when it comes to AI agents is, and maybe I've talked about this once over the years, is kind of the Jihari's window view of where we're at, right? And for those, you know, following along at home, you know, there's things that are known,
Starting point is 00:24:10 you know, by you and others. There's things that you know that others don't know. There's things that others know, but you don't. And then there's just the blind spot. It is the unknown of the unknown, right? So kind of, Eric, how do we start having those conversations for that quadrant? The unknown to us and unknown by others, right? Because like we said, who knows what tomorrow or next year's AI agents are going to be capable of?
Starting point is 00:24:39 But we have to start preparing for it today. because if we're reactive to it, it's far too late. How do business leaders start having those conversations when it's the unknown of the unknown? I think that is a large question and a really critical one for us at this moment in time when the whole idea of action and work and transactions and engagement is shifting from assuming human actors to now allowing for the possibility of agenic non-human actors. And we're at the moment where getting that right is very tricky. One of the things we think is important to help us think about that is the industry needs to have a standard way of identifying what's going on.
Starting point is 00:25:24 Up until a few months ago, there wasn't really a standard way for people to identify an agent or that an agent existed. Model context protocol has been an important step and kind of establishing some standards for that. One of the programs that we prioritized last year was to advocate for a new open standard for allowing agents to be identified and manage, their identities to be managed. We helped launch a protocol called Cross-App Access, which has now been embraced as an extension to the Model Context protocol. The intent of Cross-Up Access, it's not Octospecific, it's an open standard. But the intent is to make sure that when you build an agent, if it supports cross-app access,
Starting point is 00:26:05 that agent can be discovered and it can be governed and it can be managed and it can be secured and it can have policies for protecting its credentials and rotating its credentials. If we can drive a world where all agents support cross-app access, they all support model context protocol, they all support the standards of that technology, it empowers us as a society to be able to manage the agents with some insight to their capabilities. And so the unknown unknowns that you just described get reduced because we'll have more visibility to the universe of agents that are being deployed and specifically how they're configured and what they're authorized to do. That is a huge important first step to allowing us to kind of tame the crazy, if you will, on all the innovation that's happening in the world and to have some comfort that bad actors aren't taking bad action that we're not seeing. So that need for a standard is really critical to start the process.
Starting point is 00:27:03 That's not sufficient. I would say that cross-app access is necessary, but not sufficient. There's lots more work we need to do as technologists to help make sure we're building the guardrails in place to protect us from the unknown unknowns. So I'm a positive person, right? I've been kind of digging and poking and prodding, Eric, which I appreciate you coming along with on some of the potential downfalls. because I think when we talk about identifying, you know, AI agents with a human identity, right?
Starting point is 00:27:31 That's one of the reasons why. Can you maybe flip this and, you know, we'll end it on a or start to end it on a slightly higher note? What are some of those maybe unknown positives or for you guys, maybe known positives of IDing AI agents like humans? What does that, aside from, you know, knowing more of what could go wrong or if something does go wrong, right? You know about it. What are some of the maybe benefits or positive sides aside from that? Well, I would say the applications of AI have, I mean, there's, there's a number of areas where that's the case for. And that's the promise of agents that work 24-7 that don't sleep, that don't take vacations, that don't have sick days.
Starting point is 00:28:11 All the work that we've done historically to monitor for these types of concerning behaviors has been driven by humans. And we're now in a world where the majority of that work can be done by agents on our behalf. And so there's there's the opportunity for us to be much more secure, to be much more aware of all the specific activity that's happening within our environments, with our technology, because agents can help us with that and can help be the solution to that as well. And so there's significant upside for these technologies and capabilities to how we how we secure identity and keep people safe in the world while embracing a high, high, fast pace of innovation, which ultimately is designed to improve. improve the human condition. Like, how much can we achieve as a species when we are augmented by the capabilities of this technology that works 24-7 and can think faster than we can? And in your example, Claude is writing itself right now. Like, that's pretty exciting. Then the capabilities there are pretty exciting. So I think we have a responsibility to embrace, embrace that upside,
Starting point is 00:29:16 to embrace that potential and the capabilities of these technologies. And also to do it in a way that we're being careful to protect ourselves from unforeseen consequences. And that conversation about responsible AI is really fundamental to everything. And so I'm really pleased to see that we're having those conversations as an industry right now. And Octa is helping drive those conversations. But I think that's something that we need to be careful to continue going forward and make sure that we are, we're bringing ethical AI to the forefront so that we're driving the right, the right innovation and the right positive results. Yeah, it's wild to think how much the conversation around ethical and responsible AI has
Starting point is 00:29:57 changed over the last year. Yeah, it's kind of chaotic to follow that conversation. But Eric, we've talked a lot on today's show, but as we wrap things up, I want to ask you this, aside from someone, you know, using your product. But let's say someone has just heard this conversation and they're equally as frightened as they are excited, right? What's the next thing that they need to do today? I would say the most important thing is to read up on securing a Gen 6 identity. I think, and we kind of open on this topic. If you're working in a company today, you have agents
Starting point is 00:30:36 around their lives today. They're doing work on behalf of, you hope, on behalf of humans, possibly on behalf of other agents. They're active today. And the most, the most important thing for you to do is to understand how you can identify, discover, manage those agents, the identities of those agents in a way that allows you to be confident that you're secure. And that confidence is really important because absent the ability to discover and absent the ability to manage, no one can have confidence that they understand what agents are doing in their business. And that is a huge exposure for us.
Starting point is 00:31:12 So that's where I would recommend getting started. Certainly, Octa can help with that. There are other identity providers help with this as well. But understanding how to discover and manage and secure your agentic identity is fundamentally important to you knowing of what's happening in your company. All right. Eric, a lot for us to think about. Thank you for taking time out of your day to join Everyday AI. We really appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Great. Thanks, Jordan. Appreciate it. All right. Yeah. All right. So, y'all, if you miss anything, don't worry. It is going to be in our newsletter.
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