When an agent is compromised
With a shared long-lived API key:- The attacker has full access to everything that key can reach
- You have no way to know which agent was hit
- Revoking the key breaks every other agent using it
- No audit trail to understand what happened
- Each agent has its own identity — you know exactly which one was hit
- Tokens expire in 10 minutes — the attacker’s window is tiny
- Revoke that one agent without touching anything else
- Full audit trail of every action the compromised agent took
Compliance
Enterprise customers and regulators increasingly require:- Every AI action traceable to a human accountable party
- Tamper-proof audit logs for SOC 2 and EU AI Act compliance
- Demonstrable least-privilege access for all AI workloads