Overview
Enterprise agents combine probabilistic reasoning with tools capable of changing operational systems. Security architectures have long separated authority from execution; agent architectures make that boundary unusually easy to collapse.
For CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs, the near-term decision is practical: where must an independently enforceable control sit before agent reasoning becomes a consequential enterprise effect, and what happens when that control refuses the action?
In this article commit means the point at which a proposed action becomes a durable, privileged, financial, or externally visible enterprise effect. It does not necessarily mean a database transaction.
What Is Happening
Complete mediation, least privilege, and separation of privilege are established security principles.1 NIST's zero-trust architecture likewise treats authentication and authorization as explicit controls before access to enterprise resources is established.2 OWASP now applies the same logic directly to large-language-model applications: minimize functionality and permissions, execute actions in the user's security …