AI agents require broad API access across multiple domains simultaneously—LLM providers, enterprise APIs, cloud services, and data stores—creating identity management complexity that traditional workload security never anticipated.
Recent flaws in Conjur and Vault highlight the risks of concentrating trust in a single repository – and why workload IAM may offer a more resilient path forward.
In a single day, a developer sets out to build working AI agents – and uncovers the friction, fragility, and surprising overhead behind the automation dream.