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AG-A-01Level 1 · Signal

Owns AI agents or service identities

An Access signal from identity governance (IGA, agent inventory): this person owns one or more AI agents or service identities.

Classification

Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
Dimension Every signal answers one of 3 questions.
Subject Who or what a signal is about: person, AI agent, vendor and organization.
Evidence level
Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
NIST CSF 2.0
  • ID.AM-02
MITRE ATT&CK
  • T1528

The definition, in detail

Definition

The agents' reach adds to the person's own, and their account is the way to change what the agents may do.

Example

A data-platform lead owns four service accounts and two automation agents with write access to the warehouse; a compromise of her login reaches all six.

How it is measured

Subject
AI agent
Event
Agent inventory
Risk domain
AI agents
Provenance
Framework research

How it is used

Programs count "Owns AI agents or service identities" per ai agent from IGA, PAM & entitlements and read it beside the other AI agents signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.

A "owns AI agents or service identities" record is evidence of what the person could expose (the access side of the model). It describes reach; it records no action by the person and no attack under way.

Technical mappings

NIST CSF 2.0
ID.AM-02
MITRE ATT&CK
T1528

Framework mappings; validate for your use case.

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Cite this term

"Owns AI agents or service identities" (AG-A-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ag-a-01-owns-ai-agents-or-service-identities

Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.

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