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Zero Trust 6 min read Apr 2026

Zero Trust in the Age of AI

Zero Trust principles applied to autonomous agents, copilots, and machine identities operating at machine speed.

Zero Trust was designed for users and devices. AI agents break that model: they act on behalf of humans, chain calls across systems, and operate at a velocity no SOC can manually review.

Identity is still the control plane

Every agent, copilot, and workflow needs a first-class identity — scoped, attestable, and revocable. Federated workload identity, short-lived tokens, and policy-aware brokers are now baseline.

Continuous verification, continuously

Verify the model, the prompt, the retrieval source, and the downstream action — not just the user. Treat each tool invocation as a fresh trust decision evaluated against signals from identity, data sensitivity, and threat intelligence.

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