The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica The Rise of the Machine Identity: Securing the AI Workforce and AI Agents
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Jan 29, 2026 Jason Martin, co-founder of Permiso Security and identity‑security specialist, discusses securing machine and AI identities across cloud and SaaS. He covers why AI agents require identity-first security, the scale and risks of non-human identities, ephemeral agent inventories, overpermissioning, prompt injection and poisoning threats, and how zero trust, policy hooks, and detection models can help manage agent risk.
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AI Is A New Identity Class
- AI and agents are simply another class of identity that must be inventoried and secured like humans and machines.
- Jason Martin says AI identities carry prior identity failures into a new, faster exponential risk surface.
Non-Human Identities Scale Exponentially
- Non-human identities already outnumber humans and grow exponentially with ephemeral instances.
- Jason Martin warns AI risk is exponential because agents spawn many short-lived identities that scanners miss.
Adopt Zero Trust For Agents
- Use zero trust, least privilege, and just-in-time access when designing agent identities.
- Jason Martin urges organizations to use the AI wave to implement conditional access and zero standing privileges.