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A security model that assumes no user, device, or component is inherently trusted, enforcing continuous verification and least-privilege access.
A runnable two-agent example moves every refusal into the catalog that vends credentials, because a key covers a storage prefix and there are no rows at the point of enforcement. The author works on that catalog.
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NIST and CISA have finalised implementation guidance for the identity tokens behind single sign-on, written for federal agencies and their cloud providers. The case the announcement rests on is one cited attack.
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CISA has published the after-action report for an incident its own tooling missed. A researcher who continuously scans public code repositories spotted admin and build credentials and told a reporter.
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The Cloud Security Alliance has published something a security team can genuinely gate on, provided that team is willing to read the repository rather than the blog post, and to write its authorization rules as code.
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Tving's answer to a data breach is about 10,000 won of points and coupons per customer, a year of fraud insurance, and 12 billion won a year of security spend by 2030. Those are per-user and per-year figures, which makes them portable to other boards.
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The token standards for delegated machine authority are older than the agent boom, yet nothing portable records how far a mandate extends once it crosses company lines, which leaves accountability for a committed purchase unsettled.
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Uber built its internal agent platform in early 2025 and opened thousands of services to agent calls, then spent the rest of the year rebuilding identity because a pull request could not say which engineer asked for it.
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Partner-led deals and what Okta's COO calls a converting AI-agent pipeline carried an $805 million quarter. Nobody has yet put a figure on what agent identity itself is worth.
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The IRON solicitation asks industry for agents that outrun human analysts without an inference bill that grows with the attack volume. The Army also wants them not to become targets themselves.
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Red Hat's pitch for SPIFFE and SPIRE on OpenShift is an argument about exposure windows: a leaked Secret stays valid until someone notices it. Agents sharing the analysts' database worsen the arithmetic.
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Beyond Zero extends zero trust into per-action authorization for humans and agents. The evidence is still internal to Alphabet, but the vocabulary is what reaches your audit committee.
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Its proposed Agent Access Model says the fix is not smarter access decisions but smaller grants, sized to a single task run. The half Cloudflare admits it has not built is the interesting part.
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The open-source demo treats the model as untrusted and pushes controls outward: signed database writes, a gVisor sandbox with no network, and a deterministic gateway in front.
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