Provisioned Access vs. Emergent Access: Tracing AI Agents Back to the Humans Behind Them

October 27, 2026, 8:30 AM PT | 11:30 AM ET

An AI agent spins up a service account to finish a task or it inherits a permission set nobody remembers granting. But weeks later, it touches something it shouldn’t have and the incident report has nowhere to point and the identity provider has no record. The audit log has a gap and the team is left reconstructing what happened from Slack messages and guesswork.

That’s the gap most platform and security teams haven’t closed yet. Humans get provisioned access, run through a system built specifically to track who has what and why. Agents get emergent access — permissions they pick up, inherit, or generate on their own, with no equivalent system watching any of it.

In this live session, TNS host Viktor Farcic sits down with CloudBolt’s Shawn Petty (Chief Customer Officer) and Mike Bombard (Director of Global Pre-Sales Engineering) to close that gap: tying agent activity back to your existing identity provider, controlling exactly what agents are allowed to touch, and keeping a full audit trail instead of a black box.

Shawn and Mike will run the actual tracing process live on CloudBolt’s platform, so you can watch an agent’s action get traced back to a real, accountable identity in real time. If your team has agents touching production and no clean answer for who’s responsible when something breaks, this session is built for you.

By attending, you’ll learn:

  • How to tie AI agent activity back to a specific human identity using your existing identity provider and not a separate, parallel system

  • A practical framework for deciding what infrastructure actions an agent should (and shouldn’t) be allowed to take without human sign-off

  • What a real audit trail for agent behavior looks like in practice, and how to build one without slowing teams down

  • A live look at tracing an agent’s credentials and actions in real time

Can’t join us live? Register anyway and we’ll send you a recording after the session. By registering, you consent to receiving email communications from The New Stack and CloudBolt. You may opt out at any time.

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