For two years, enterprise AI meant chatbots and copilots. That era is ending. Organizations are now deploying AI agents that don’t just respond to prompts but take action autonomously—managing workflows, executing code, sending emails, all with your credentials and permissions. Traditional security can’t protect against an agent that has authorized access but drifts from your intent. Every action passes the permissions check. The credentials are valid. The behavior, however, may have nothing to do with what you asked the agent to do. Agent Integrity is the framework for addressing this problem, shifting the security question from “can this agent access this resource?” to “should this agent be accessing this resource right now, for this task?”
Semantic Privilege Escalation: The Agent Security Threat Hiding in Plain Sight
Traditional access controls check whether an agent has permission to act. They don’t check whether the action makes sense for the task at hand. Semantic privilege escalation is the emerging AI security threat that exploits this blind spot—and most enterprises aren’t equipped to detect it.