AI Security Posture Management
AI agents expand your attack surface. Privilege is the control point that keeps adoption safe.
AI Security Posture Management Starts with Privilege
AI agents are multiplying across your environment. They authenticate, execute workflows, and access critical systems, just like your people do. An AI agent is only as useful as its level of access to your environment—but unlike your people, nobody is governing an AI’s privilege.
Attackers are exploiting the implicit trust and chaotic sprawl of AI in organizations to leverage privileges in unique ways. Identifying and controlling privileges is the key to secure AI adoption.
BeyondTrust maps the blast radius of every AI agent and identity in your environment, applies least-privilege controls, and helps ensure that even a compromised agent can’t cause damage. When you control the privilege, you control the risk.
The Current AI Security Market Is Misaligned to the True Problem
Most AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) solutions focus on the agent layer, scanning for misconfigurations, detecting prompt injection, and monitoring for privilege drift. That’s important, but it’s not where breaches happen.
Every AI security incident traces back to the same core problem: identities and access.
Agents with native vendor-provided guardrails in place aren't enough; agents can self-elevate privileges through downstream connections that bypass native controls.
Three questions most organizations can’t answer:
- What can your AI agents access?
- What actions can they take to change it?
- Who’s governing any of it?
If you can’t answer all three, your AI posture has a gap. And it’s the kind of gap that CSPM, DSPM, and AI chat-layer controls were never designed to close.
Control the Privilege. Neutralize the Threat.
BeyondTrust takes a different, more effective approach to AI Security Posture Management. We don’t just monitor your AI agents, we govern what they can do. Our privilege-centric approach means that even if an agent is compromised through prompt injection, credential theft, or a supply chain attack, the potential blast radius is minimized .
Perspective: AI Agent Discovery and Blast Radius Analysis
Auto-discover every AI agent and non-human identity (NHI) across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises. See exactly what each agent can access, what actions it can take, and the full escalation path if compromised.
Control: Least-Privilege Enforcement for AI
Apply risk-scored access controls to every layer surrounding an AI agent. Excess privilege can be eliminated across all environments before an attacker can exploit it.
Detect: Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) for AI
Leverage our unified Pathfinder Platform to monitor agent behavior in real-time, flag anomalies, and connect the dots between posture and privilege changes, authentication events, and lateral movement.
Prove: Continuous Compliance & Audit Readiness
Pathfinder's visibility and identity security controls help you better align your AI governance to OWASP, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and more. Every agent, access decision, and revocation—logged, auditable, and defensible.
Why BeyondTrust's AI-SPM Solution is Different
When You Control the Privilege, Everything Becomes a Honeypot.
| Content table | TYPICAL AI-SPM | BEYONDTRUST AI-SPM |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Model layer: scanning, prompt shielding, drift detection | Identity layer: privilege, access, blast radius |
| Breach philosophy | Prevent the compromise from happening | Assume compromise. Make the compromise meaningless |
| AI agent visibility | Inventory of agents and configurations | AI agent observability and full blast radius mapping: what can each agent reach, do, and escalate its privileges to |
| Controls | Policy rules on model behavior | Least-privilege enforcement on agent access with automated detection and remediation guidance |
| Threat intelligence | CVE / model vulnerability feeds | Phantom Labs offensive research: real AI agent compromise, live demos |
| Platform | Standalone AI security tool | Unified with PAM, CIEM, and ITDR on the Pathfinder Platform |
If you have control over the privilege, a compromised agent is a compromised agent with nowhere to go. Your critical systems stay protected. With BeyondTrust’s AI Security Posture Management solution, your environment is hardened and resilient, while AI agents are able to work productively at speed and scale.
An Effective Approach to Secure AI backed by Proven Research
BeyondTrust Phantom Labs™ is an offensive AI security research team that proves theoretical risks and shares real-world evidence. So far Phantom Labs has:
- Compromised a “properly-configured” enterprise Copilot Studio agent to obtain cloud infrastructure access
- Demonstrated privilege escalation paths from SaaS integrations into AWS, GitHub, and Salesforce
- Published coordinated vulnerability disclosures with major platform vendors
- Actively contribute to OWASP AI security frameworks
Watch: AI Hacking—Weaponizing Enterprise Agents
See What Damage Your AI Agents Can Really Do.
Get a free AI Identity Security Posture Assessment. We’ll map every AI agent in your environment, show you the blast radius, and identify the privilege gaps that put you at risk.
Customer Testimonials
"Adopting Identity Security Insights® was a particularly eye-opening experience for us... We discovered multiple over-provisioned identities and service accounts… This level of visibility is important as we enter the new world of agentic AI. Identity Security Insights gives us the ability to prioritize and reduce the most critical risks in our environment—for both human and machine identities."
—Harrison Gibbs, Team Lead for Platforms and Automations, ivision
"We had Pathfinder for one week. The AI traced a nested AD group granting local admin, accurately, at a depth we couldn't do manually. It surfaced accounts with no owner that we had no idea existed. But what it really did was give us a way to prioritize. We resolved the highest-risk issues and we're in a much stronger defensive position now. Once you see it, you can't unsee it."
—Shannon Anderson, VP, BISG Security Engineering – Identity and Access Management, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.