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Intent· 6 min read
NIST Just Proved Rules Aren't Enough. Intent-Based Identity Is What Comes Next.
Darktrace's conclusion from the NIST analysis is that AI security must shift from rules to behavior. This is right. But behavioral detection alone has a limitation that matters for enterprise AI agent governance: it tells you when something looks different. It does not tell you whether what is different is wrong. The answer is not behavior alone. It is identity and intent as the reference layer against which behavior is evaluated.
Amir Ofek
22 Jul 2026
Governance & Compliance· 8 min read
7 Types of AI Agents Every Security Team Needs to Know (And How to Govern Each One)
Most "types of AI agents" guides are written for the people building them. This one is written for the people who have to answer for what those agents do once they're running. Same seven architectures - rule-based, conversational, predictive, collaborative, adaptive, RPA, and cognitive — but classified by what actually determines risk: autonomy, system reach, and permission inheritance. Because a rule-based agent and a fully autonomous one don't belong under the same policy, and most enterprise AI risk programs stall exactly because they're treated like they do.
Identity & Access· 10 min read
The Enterprise Guide to AI Agent Identity, Governance, and the ARISE Category
Enterprise AI agents are operating in Finance, HR, Sales, Operations, and IT at organizations across every industry - accessing sensitive data, executing multi-step workflows, and making consequential decisions, often with no human in the loop. The identity and governance infrastructure designed to secure human employees and traditional machine identities was not built for this.
aizome
15 Jul 2026

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The Future Workforce Will Be Dominated by AI Agents. Long Live ARISE.
NHI is evolving. Or is it being replaced? In this fireside chat, SACR analyst Lawrence Pingree and Amir Ofek make the strongest possible case for why extending NHI frameworks to cover AI agents is not the right strategy. The argument: organizations treating enterprise AI agent governance as "NHI with extra steps" are building programs that will fail in production. ARISE - Agentic Runtime Identity Security Enforcement - is not an extension of NHI. It is what comes after it.
Amir Ofek
18 Aug 2026