Stopping the quiet drift toward excessive agency with re-permissioning

As AI agents (AI systems that can connect to databases, applications, and external systems to execute multi-step tasks) become more widely deployed, organizations are giving them excessive permissions, allowing them to access systems and take actions beyond what they actually need. The real security risk has shifted from AI producing wrong answers to AI taking unauthorized actions at scale, such as exposing data or making integrity-impacting changes, because most organizations lack formal risk management frameworks and visibility into how agent permissions are controlled across connected systems.