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4 essays in this series
Trust in the AI-native enterprise is not a policy statement or a compliance posture. It is engineered through identity, authority, provenance, evidence, memory, observability, escalation, and fail-safe control, the connective tissue among cyber, governance, data, and the operating model.
As workflows move from deterministic automation to autonomous action, security must govern intent, provenance, permissions, and behavior. Autonomy is not the problem. Unbounded autonomy is.
Enterprise identity was built for humans, applications, and service accounts. Agents introduce ephemeral, delegated, contextual identity, and demand that every machine action tie back to an accountable principal.
In the agentic enterprise, the security question is no longer only who accessed what. It is what an authorized machine actor is allowed to decide and do right now. Security becomes the enforcement layer for delegated authority.