What's new in IAM: Security, governance, and runtime defense
The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply aren’t built for autonomous AI agents that interact with sensitive data at machine speed, a reality we address with our new IAM advancements for the agentic enterprise era. Engineered as built-in Google Cloud capabilities to secure the rapidly-expanding world of AI agents, at Google Cloud Next we introduced a new security and governance paradigm for managing agent identity and access. This comprehensive framework focuses on foundational Agent Identity and an Agent Gateway with Identity-Aware Proxy, while integrating robust agent access [...]