A Practical Guide to Agent Access Management (AAM) 

AI agents are becoming one of your biggest data risks.

AI agents, service accounts, and automated systems now interact with sensitive data continuously — acting on their own, moving fast, and often holding far more access than they need. Most access governance programs weren’t built for this shift. If non-human identities touch your data, it's time to take back control.

This guide introduces a modern, data-first approach to governing access for AI and non-human identities. It helps security leaders understand their current state, uncover exposure, and put scalable controls in place — across both people and machines.

With BigID's Agent Access Management, organizations can:

• Tie access decisions directly to data sensitivity
• Reduce over-privileged agents through least-privilege enforcement
• Continuously observe how agents use data
• Detect risk and take action as it happens