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- Agentic IAM Day 2026 panel, hosted by PlainID.
- Moderated by Mr NHI, Lalit Choda, Founder & CEO of NHI Mgmt Group.
Can you still trust your non-human identities (NHIs) once AI agents start making their own decisions? We used to trust service accounts and workloads because they behaved predictably. Autonomous agents don’t, and that changes how identity security, least privilege and authorisation need to work.
At Agentic IAM Day 2026, hosted by PlainID, Lalit Choda (Founder & CEO of NHI Mgmt Group, known as Mr. NHI) put two very different viewpoints in the same room. Steven Rennick (Senior Leader, Identity Strategy & Architecture, Ciena) speaks as the enterprise architect who has to make agent trust work in practice. Dror Zelber (VP, AI Product Marketing, Radware) has watched agents go off-script in the wild and argues we should treat them like humans. Together they ask whether our NHI “friends” are turning into insider threats, and why every agent should start with zero privilege.
What you’ll learn:
- Why trust based only on identity and permissions breaks down for AI agents, and what continuous, runtime trust looks like
- Two real ways agents become insider threats: indirect prompt injection, and forgotten or wider-than-expected permissions
- How least privilege has to change for autonomous agents: start with zero standing access and grant it just in time for each action
- Why monitoring agent behaviour against its stated goals and intent matters
- Whether an AI agent is “just another NHI” or should be governed more like a human
- Why “machine-speed judgment” matters more than machine-speed authorisation
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Key Moments
- 00:00 Introduction – Agentic IAM Day 2026
- 00:31 Friends or enemies? Rethinking trust in NHIs
- 01:30 Trust models for autonomous machine actors
- 02:48 When do NHIs become insider threats?
- 05:15 Least privilege for AI agents
- 07:28 Real-time authorisation & behavioural monitoring
- 09:52 Is an AI agent just another NHI?
- 11:44 Treating every identity as a “digital actor”
- 13:23 Speed vs. judgment in agent authorisation
- 15:15 Closing advice for your agentic AI journey