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Agentic Identity Management and Shadow Agents in Kubernetes: Designing Zero-Trust Identity Architecture for AI Agents and Autonomous Workloads
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Series: The Professional Agentic AI Security
General ComputersComputer Security
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ISBN13: 9798249484132
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 23 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.46 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 23 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.46 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Agentic Identity Management and Shadow Agents in Kubernetes
Designing Zero-Trust Identity Architecture for AI Agents and Autonomous Workloads What happens when your Kubernetes cluster stops running predictable services, and starts running autonomous AI agents?
Designing Zero-Trust Identity Architecture for AI Agents and Autonomous Workloads What happens when your Kubernetes cluster stops running predictable services, and starts running autonomous AI agents?
Static service accounts. Long-lived API keys. Broad RBAC roles. These controls were built for deterministic workloads. But AI agents are different. They reason, delegate, and act dynamically across services at machine speed. When identity remains static while behavior becomes probabilistic, your attack surface expands dramatically.
Agentic Identity Management and Shadow Agents in Kubernetes addresses this exact challenge. This book provides a practical, engineering-focused blueprint for designing Zero-Trust identity architecture specifically for AI agents and autonomous workloads inside Kubernetes environments.
If you are responsible for cloud-native security, platform engineering, or DevSecOps governance, this book equips you with the architectural patterns and operational controls required to secure non-human identities at scale.
You will learn how to:
Shadow agents, confused deputy attacks, prompt injection side effects, and cross-agent escalation are no longer theoretical risks. They are operational realities in modern AI-driven infrastructure. This book provides concrete strategies and production-ready architectural patterns to defend against them.
Clear, direct, and technically grounded, this guide avoids hype and focuses on what matters: secure, scalable Kubernetes infrastructure for autonomous systems.
If you are building or securing AI agents in Kubernetes, and want identity to become your strongest control plane rather than your weakest link, this book belongs on your desk.
Equip your platform with Zero-Trust architecture built for the agentic era.
Order your copy today and design identity systems that keep pace with autonomous intelligence.
Agentic Identity Management and Shadow Agents in Kubernetes addresses this exact challenge. This book provides a practical, engineering-focused blueprint for designing Zero-Trust identity architecture specifically for AI agents and autonomous workloads inside Kubernetes environments.
If you are responsible for cloud-native security, platform engineering, or DevSecOps governance, this book equips you with the architectural patterns and operational controls required to secure non-human identities at scale.
You will learn how to:
- Replace static secrets with cryptographically verifiable workload identities using SPIFFE and SPIRE
- Enforce mutual TLS (mTLS) and identity-based network policies across service meshes
- Implement Just-in-Time (JIT) credential provisioning to eliminate standing privileges
- Detect and contain Shadow AI workloads using eBPF-driven runtime observability
- Prevent cross-agent privilege escalation in multi-agent systems
- Design precision revocation workflows that isolate rogue replicas without impacting availability
- Apply attribute-based access control (ABAC) and policy-as-code to agent delegation chains
- Build federated identity across multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments
Shadow agents, confused deputy attacks, prompt injection side effects, and cross-agent escalation are no longer theoretical risks. They are operational realities in modern AI-driven infrastructure. This book provides concrete strategies and production-ready architectural patterns to defend against them.
Clear, direct, and technically grounded, this guide avoids hype and focuses on what matters: secure, scalable Kubernetes infrastructure for autonomous systems.
If you are building or securing AI agents in Kubernetes, and want identity to become your strongest control plane rather than your weakest link, this book belongs on your desk.
Equip your platform with Zero-Trust architecture built for the agentic era.
Order your copy today and design identity systems that keep pace with autonomous intelligence.
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