Securing the AI Journey
An Executive Brief for Security Leaders
This executive brief provides a practical framework for securing AI across every stage of adoption — from Shadow AI to autonomous agents to enterprise scale. It shows security leaders how to close identity visibility gaps, reduce AI-driven risk, and build a foundation that enables innovation without sacrificing control.
What You’ll Learn
- Why AI security is fundamentally an identity challenge: Understand how AI users, builders, and agents create new attack surfaces across authentication boundaries — and why traditional tools struggle to keep up.
- How AI risk evolves across five stages of adoption: Learn the primary risks at each phase — Shadow AI, sanctioned tools, AI app development, autonomous agents, and enterprise scale — and what security controls matter most.
- How to build an identity-first AI security strategy: Discover how unified identity visibility, behavioral baselines, and runtime intelligence help prevent credential compromise, over-permissioning, and agent misuse before damage occurs.
Permiso has proven to be indispensable to the way we manage and secure identities across multiple environments
Sebastian Goodwin, Chief Trust Officer, Autodesk
Permiso's ability to track identities and their activities across IaaS, SaaS and identity providers at runtime is unlike any of our existing solutions
Michael Hensley, Head of Cyber Security at Modern Health
Identity is the silver bullet in the cloud. If you don't get it right, you're dead!
Jason Chan, Former VP of Information Security at Netflix