The advent of agentic AI heralds a transformative era for enterprises, promising unprecedented automation and efficiency. This leap into autonomous systems, however, brings forth a profound and urgent mandate: the establishment, management, and secure provisioning of non-human intelligent agent identities at scale. This session will provide CTOs with the definitive strategic framework for architecting robust identity programs, purpose-built for the evolving agentic AI landscape.

We will delve into the critical realization that non-human identity (NHI) security is the foundational backbone of effective agentic AI identity and access management. As AI agents gain autonomy and interact across complex digital ecosystems, their identities become the primary control plane for ensuring trust, controlling access, and enforcing governance. This presentation will illuminate how common identity challenges historically associated with human users – such as credential sprawl, privilege escalation, and anomalous behavior detection – will now manifest uniquely as non-human identity issues, necessitating entirely new paradigms for their detection, rapid response, and comprehensive lifecycle management.

A core focus will be on the imperative of managing identities for their behavior, posture, and usage at a new, massive scale driven by these agents. We will dissect why traditional identity governance models are inherently insufficient for the dynamic, high-volume interactions characteristic of AI agents. Attendees will gain insight into advanced techniques for continuous behavioral analytics, real-time posture validation, and the implementation of fine-grained access controls that adapt dynamically to agents' evolving roles and functions. Critically, we will define what success truly entails for an identity program engineered to support agentic AI, outlining the key metrics, essential architectural principles, and strategic considerations required to ensure your autonomous systems operate securely, efficiently, and compliantly. CTOs will depart this session with a clear understanding of organizational ownership for this critical domain and an actionable blueprint to implement within their enterprise.