Description

In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition from AWS Summit New York, Jo Peterson speaks with Himanshu Verma, Worldwide Leader for Security, Identity, and Governance Specialists at AWS, about how agentic AI is changing the identity risk conversation. 

They discuss why AI agents need to be treated as non-human identities, how AWS Security Hub helps centralize identity risk management, and why multi-Region resilience matters for enterprise security leaders. 

Episode Description 

AI agents are moving from assistive chatbots to autonomous, task-executing digital employees. That creates new identity risks around permissions, visibility, accountability, and resilience. 

In this special episode, Jo Peterson and AWS’s Himanshu Verma discuss: 

• Why agentic AI changes identity risk 
• The problem of over-permissioned agents 
• How AWS Security Hub centralizes identity and access visibility 
• Why Security Hub helps correlate findings across core AWS security services 
• How multi-Region resilience supports enterprise identity and continuity 

Guest 

Himanshu Verma 
Worldwide Leader for Security, Identity, and Governance Specialists, AWS 

Host 

Jo Peterson 
CIO, Clarify360 
Chief Analyst, ClearTech Research 

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