AI Agents, Identity and Enterprise Security with One Identity CEO Praerit Garg

In this episode of Shift AI, Praerit Garg, CEO of One Identity, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy for a wide-ranging conversation on what happens to enterprise security when AI agents start outnumbering the humans they work alongside.Praerit has spent his career on both sides of this problem, from building Active Directory at Microsoft to running identity at AWS, and he says the thing keeping him up at night isn't a new category of threat at all. It's an old one moving at a speed nobody has built the guardrails for yet, and he points to a very recent, very public example of exactly how fast it can get away from you.This one's for CISOs, CTOs, platform and security engineers, and any founder scaling a company that's already handing real work to autonomous agents.Recorded Live at Baker Tily during Seattle Tech Week 2026. Thank you to Stifel Bank and Wison Sonsini for sponsoring.Chapters[00:00] Welcome back — PG's journey from Smartsheet to CEO of One Identity[01:58] What One Identity does: identity governance, explained[03:41] How the firewall evaporated and identity became the new perimeter[04:24] Rethinking identity for a world full of AI agents[07:14] Why agent identities are harder to secure than human ones[08:00] Breaking down the OpenAI and Hugging Face agent escape[09:03] Least privilege: the hardest idea in security to actually pull off[11:19] What keeps PG up at night as agents start to outnumber people[15:19] Sovereign AI, air-gapped models, and the return of on-prem[18:18] Scaling Smartsheet fast, and why flexibility beats architecture bets[20:20] What CEOs should be asking security vendors and usually aren't[22:37] The next five years: agents outnumbering humans and AI writing the codeConnect with Praerit GargLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praerit-garg/Company: One Identity (oneidentity.com)Connect with Boaz AshkenazyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boazashkenazy/Email: [email protected]