Consulting Agents With No Verifiable Identity

Consultancies run dozens of agents for audit sampling, tax research, and advisory analysis, and most inherit a consultant's own login. No action traces to a specific agent, access is far broader than the task, and revoking one agent means disrupting the consultant. PointGuard AI issues each agent a verifiable identity with scoped, delegated access.

Agents acting under personal logins cannot be attributed or contained.

• Agents inherit consultants' credentials and permissions.
• Audit trails cannot separate agent and human actions.
• Engagement data access is broader than needed.
• Revoking an agent disrupts the consultant's work.

Agent Identity & Access Security gives each agent a verifiable identity and scoped access.

1. Register every agent. Assign each agent a DID-based identity backed by Ed25519 signatures, with an owner and engagement scope.

2. Delegate with context. Use On-Behalf-Of tokens so actions carry both agent and consultant identity.

3. Scope to the engagement. Issue short-lived tokens limited to the client, engagement, and tools required.

4. Attribute and revoke. Tie every action to its agent and revoke any agent instantly.

• OWASP Top 10 for LLMs: LLM06 Excessive Agency, addressing agents holding a consultant's full access.
• OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications: ASI03 Identity and Privilege Abuse and ASI07 Insecure Inter-Agent Communication, covering credential abuse and unverified communication between agents.
• NIST AI RMF: GOVERN assigns ownership; MAP identifies agent identities; MEASURE tracks access risk; MANAGE enables revocation.