Agent-Identity

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RSAC 2026: Agentic AI Demands a New Zero-Trust Security Playbook — Cisco and Microsoft Lead the Charge

Zero-trust security was designed for humans. The assumptions baked into zero-trust frameworks — continuous verification, least-privilege access, never trust the network — were built around the behavior of human users accessing enterprise systems. AI agents are not human users. They don’t authenticate once and then work. They spawn dynamically, request broad permissions, communicate with dozens of downstream services, and operate at speeds that make human audit review impractical in real time. The security frameworks built for human users were not designed for this. ...

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World and Coinbase Launch AgentKit: Cryptographic Human Identity for AI Agents

The agentic commerce wave just got a critical missing piece. On March 17, 2026, Tools for Humanity (the startup behind Sam Altman’s World project) launched AgentKit in partnership with Coinbase’s x402 protocol — a developer tool that lets AI shopping agents carry cryptographic proof that a real human stands behind their actions. This isn’t just a verification gimmick. It’s the infrastructure layer that could determine who gets to play in a projected $3–5 trillion agentic commerce market. ...

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AI Agents: The Next Wave — Identity Dark Matter. Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged

Nearly 70% of enterprises are already running AI agents in production. Another 23% plan to deploy them in 2026. And the vast majority of those agents are operating with no audit trail, no identity governance, and full access to the data they touch. Security analysts have a name for this: identity dark matter. The term comes from a Hacker News analysis published this week, and it’s earning traction because it captures something real. Like cosmological dark matter, AI agent identities exert enormous gravitational force on the systems around them — they make decisions, consume data, trigger actions — while remaining largely invisible to the tools and processes organizations use to manage access and risk. ...