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Claroty: AI Agent Swarms & Autonomous Identity Governance

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09/01/2026
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hey, I want you to go do this for me, from an outcome perspective. This is where that guardrails concept comes in, right? Because a lot of times people just say, hey, go do this for me, but they don't specify like, well, here's kind of how I want you to go do that. And a normal, even if it was like an intern or somebody you hired, they would kind of, you know, before they do certain things, they check in with you and they'd be like, hey, I'm about to go do this thing. Is that okay? Is that aligned with policy, right? And so that's the part where I don't think yet as an industry or even as the world, or even as the AI vendors, we've really figured out what is, how do we actually tell an agent like, please go try to do this thing, but only do it kind of according to this or according to the company's policies, or hey, check in with me before you go do that thing. And I think we're just at the early stages of that. So tying that back to your question about like autonomous identity creation, I think most security people would say, well, that should never happen. But the challenge is now, especially if you think of an attacker, like they actually wanna create new identities, right? As part of that, because it makes it difficult to track, you know, the subsequent activity by each identity. And so I think we're still at the very early innings of what that means. But I think if you look at some of the very, very kind of bleeding edge, cutting edge research that people are doing with swarms of agents, those agents are gonna create their own sub agents that do all kinds of things. And so just like with drones, you know, how it started off, we have one drone and now we have, you know, swarms of drones, same thing with AI, right? It's gonna be to the point where you can't kind of point to each thing and create a policy for it. It's gonna have to be software that goes in and kind of really sets those policies in guardrails.

TL;DR

  • AI agents given open-ended directives will autonomously create sub-identities and sub-agents, making activity tracking extremely difficult for security teams.
  • The industry has not yet established a reliable framework for instructing agents to pursue goals while enforcing company policy guardrails.
  • Attackers already exploit autonomous identity creation to obscure lateral movement, making this a live threat — not just a future concern.

Summary

In this short clip from the Nexus Podcast, John Laliberte, CEO of ClearVector, outlines one of the most pressing emerging challenges in enterprise security: governing AI agents that autonomously create sub-identities to complete tasks. Laliberte argues that neither the security industry, AI vendors, nor the broader technology world has yet solved the fundamental problem of how to instruct an agent to pursue a goal while constraining it to operate within company policy. He draws a vivid parallel to drone swarms — just as drone technology evolved from a single unit to coordinated swarms impossible to manage individually, AI agent ecosystems are heading toward a similar inflection point where sub-agents will proliferate beyond the reach of manual policy assignment. The security implication is significant: attackers already exploit autonomous identity creation to obscure their activity trails, and legitimate agent swarms will create the same tracking problem at scale. Laliberte's conclusion is that software-driven guardrails — not human-in-the-loop review — will be the only viable governance mechanism for non-human identity sprawl at this level of complexity. The clip serves as a teaser for the full Nexus Podcast episode on AI and non-human identity controls.

Chapters

0:00 - The Guardrails Problem
0:47 - Autonomous Identity Creation Risk
1:09 - Agent Swarms and the Drone Analogy
1:34 - Software-Driven Policy as the Answer

Key Quotes

0:26 "That's the part where I don't think yet as an industry or even as the world, or even as the AI vendors, we've really figured out what is, how do we actually tell an agent like, please go try to do this thing, but only do it kind of according to this or according to the company's policies."
0:57 "If you think of an attacker, like they actually wanna create new identities, right? As part of that, because it makes it difficult to track, you know, the subsequent activity by each identity."
1:17 "Those agents are gonna create their own sub agents that do all kinds of things. And so just like with drones, you know, how it started off, we have one drone and now we have, you know, swarms of drones, same thing with AI."

FAQ

Why is autonomous identity creation by AI agents a security risk?

When agents autonomously create new sub-identities to complete tasks, it becomes very difficult to track subsequent activity associated with each identity — a problem attackers already exploit intentionally to obscure their lateral movement.

How should organizations govern AI agent behavior within policy boundaries?

According to Laliberte, the answer will need to be software-driven guardrails rather than manual review, since the scale of agent and sub-agent proliferation will make individual policy assignment impractical.


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