“For CISOs, materiality should be determined by tracing three things,” mentioned Grover. “First, which agents consume untrusted content such as pull requests, issues, emails, support tickets, or external documents? Second, can the output of those agents directly or indirectly trigger another agent or workflow with higher privileges? Third, what is the maximum effective capability of the identities, credentials, and tools involved?”
Mapping transitive authority
Existing safety instruments could present solely a partial view of how authority strikes between brokers and workflows.
Grover mentioned IAM, PAM, CIEM, and application-security instruments can expose particular person identities, permissions, and unsafe workflow configurations, however could not acknowledge that these elements kind a single event-driven delegation path.
