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Author: Dan Kaplan

A ServiceNow impersonation flaw illustrates how agentic systems turn weak identity assumptions into durable access paths across enterprise environments.
Traditional security models fail to detect compromised service accounts and non-deterministic AI agents, requiring a shift to layered, identity-aware behavioral monitoring.
API keys offer simplicity, but OAuth provides superior security through automatic expiration and granular scopes.
A project to improve test visibility meant using Aembit the same way customers do, in a real deployment environment where software runs unattended and requires trusted access to external services.
True zero trust requires verified identity at every request and eliminating static credentials entirely.
Traditional static access control is inadequate for dynamic MCP server environments. Context-Based Access Control (CBAC) provides superior security by evaluating identity, context, and resource in real-time.
The exposure demonstrates how ordinary errors can reveal internal credentials and how stronger limits on scope and lifespan can contain the impact.
The incident demonstrates how autonomous behavior reshapes intrusion patterns when identity is not clearly assigned or enforced.
These four architectural patterns reveal how AI agents differ fundamentally from traditional workloads.
From Coca-Cola to Campbell Soup, Renee Guttmann knows what lasts as security changes.