Free Tool from Token Security Helps You Right-Size Permissions for AI Agents

AI agents are transforming business workflows. These autonomous agents are often created with access to sensitive data and critical services. If their privileges are not carefully managed, an AI agent could quickly become a major security liability. Here’s why you need to start evaluating the privileges for your AI agents:

• AI agents pose unique risks: They often access business-critical applications, sensitive data, APIs, and corporate systems to perform tasks. An AI agent might interface with databases, cloud services, internal APIs, and more, a wide breadth of access that would typically be tightly controlled for human users.
• Without least privilege, accidents can be catastrophic: A single misconfiguration or successful prompt injection attack could expose critical information or trigger unintended actions. In fact, without strict access limits, an AI agent can effectively turn into a supercharged insider threat, capable of leaking or modifying large volumes of data in seconds.
• Why least privilege matters: The principle of least privilege limits each agent to only the data and systems it truly needs for its job. This containment dramatically reduces the potential blast radius if the agent is compromised. By enforcing minimal permissions, you ensure an AI agent can’t access (or damage) anything outside its scope.
• The challenge – dynamic, evolving agents: AI agents are not static scripts; they learn and adapt with real-time data and can change their behavior over time. Hard-coding narrow permissions is difficult and can break functionality as an agent’s tasks evolve. Ensuring continuous least-privilege access for these dynamic agents is a complex task without the right tooling.

Introducing AI Privilege Guardian: Define, Scope, and Simulate AI Agent Permissions

To address these challenges, Token Security is launching the AI Privilege Guardian, a free interactive tool that helps you right-size the permissions for your AI agents. The AI Privilege Guardian lets AI agent builders and security professionals define an agent’s intended purpose, scope its access to the minimum necessary resources, and simulate its operations to validate that the permissions are just right. It’s available now at: https://privilege-guardian.ai.token.security/.

First, you start by describing your AI agent’s purpose and selecting the environments or services it will use. For example, you might specify “AWS cost-optimization agent” or “customer service chatbot” and list which platforms or APIs it needs (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, SaaS apps, etc.). You also set its access level (read-only, read/write, or admin) and any specific operations it should perform. Based on this input, AI Privilege Guardian uses an intent-based approach to determine the necessary permissions. It may prompt you for additional details. For instance, if the agent manages cloud resources, the tool asks which actions (such as starting or stopping servers or reading certain data stores) are truly required.

Once you’ve clarified the agent’s needs, AI Privilege Guardian generates a tailored set of least-privilege permissions for each target environment. In practice, it produces policy definitions (e.g. AWS IAM policies, Azure roles, GCP permissions) aligned exactly with the agent’s intended actions. The output includes a security score indicating how well the agent’s access adheres to best-practice guidelines, and it flags any potential over-privilege. The tool also offers suggestions to improve that score, by narrowing resource scope or removing unneeded permissions as an example. You can adjust the parameters and quickly regenerate updated policies, iterating until the agent’s access is fully right-sized.

If you already have an AI agent deployed, you can upload its existing policy or usage logs for analysis. AI Privilege Guardian will flag any permissions the agent didn’t actually need or any actions outside its intended scope, and then recommend removing those excess privileges.

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See the Full Capabilities of the Token Security Platform

AI Privilege Guardian is a great start to understanding the right permissions for your AI agents. It provides immediate value by analyzing one agent at a time and offering suggestions. However, securing AI agents at scale requires continuous visibility, control, and governance. This is where the full capabilities of the Token Security Platform are needed. Our enterprise AI agent identity security platform provides advanced capabilities to ensure all your AI agents and Non-Human Identities (NHIs) remain secure:

• Complete visibility: Automatically discover every managed and unmanaged AI agent in your environment, see what it can access, and who owns it.
• Continuous least-privilege enforcement: Monitor AI agents and automatically adjust their permissions in real time based on what they actually need, preventing privilege creep.
• Governance and compliance: Establish policies and approval workflows for AI agent access. Integrate with your identity governance processes to keep each agent’s privileges compliant. The platform can also retire agent accounts that are no longer in service automatically.
• Rapid incident response: If an AI agent is compromised or misbehaving, contain it instantly by revoking its credentials and reviewing its activity logs. This minimizes the blast radius of any AI-related security incident.

The launch of AI Privilege Guardian highlights Token Security’s commitment to helping organizations embrace AI safely without slowing innovation. We invite you to try this free tool today and start locking down your AI agents with least-privilege principles. When you’re ready to scale up to comprehensive AI identity management, request a full demo of the Token Security Platform to see how we deliver full visibility, control, and governance of your AI agent identities. With the right tools, you can enjoy the productivity benefits of AI agents while keeping your security posture strong.

The AI Privilege Guardian is available for free from Token Security. To get started, click here: https://privilege-guardian.ai.token.security/.

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