The Non-Human Identity Crisis: Why AI Agents Need Their Own Identity Layer
NHIs outnumber humans 144:1 and cause 80% of identity breaches. Why shared API keys are the agent security crisis nobody is solving.
#security#identity#NHI
Blog
Articles about AI agent trust, identity verification, and the future of agent-to-agent communication.
How to Make Your AI Agent EU AI Act Compliant Before August 2026
Article 50 transparency requirements, fines up to EUR 35M, and the four-layer compliance stack your agent needs before the deadline.
#compliance#eu-ai-act#regulation
Zero Trust for AI Agents: Beyond the Perimeter
Only 5% have agents in production. 60% cite security as the barrier. How cryptographic identity extends zero trust to autonomous agents.
#security#zero-trust#architecture
DNS-Based Agent Discovery: The Missing Infrastructure for the Agent Web
Three IETF drafts, one GoDaddy deployment, and the DNS TXT record format that will make AI agents discoverable like websites.
#infrastructure#DNS#discovery
Tamper-Proof Audit Logs for AI Agents: A Technical Deep Dive
SHA-256 hash chains, Ed25519 signatures, and why append-only databases are not enough for agent compliance logging.
#audit#cryptography#compliance
x402 Payments for AI Agents: Identity-Verified Commerce
140M+ transactions but half are artificial. The missing piece in agentic commerce is identity — here is how to add it.
#payments#x402#commerce
W3C Verifiable Credentials for AI Agents: From Theory to Implementation
W3C DIDs v1.1 just hit Candidate Recommendation. How to issue and verify credentials for AI agents in production.
#W3C#credentials#standards
Guardian Agents Need Guarded Agents: Why Gartner's New Category Requires Agent Identity
Gartner's first Market Guide for guardian agents landed. The framework assumes agent identity exists — but who provides it?
#gartner#governance#enterprise
MCP Server Security: How to Verify the Tools Your AI Agent Connects To
30+ CVEs in 60 days. 82% vulnerable to path traversal. 38% have no auth. A security guide for the MCP ecosystem.
#MCP#security#claude
Key Rotation and Revocation for AI Agents: The Lifecycle Nobody Manages
78% lack formal agent decommissioning policies. 64% of leaked secrets from 2022 are still valid. The credential lifecycle problem.
#keys#lifecycle#security
Claude Can Use Your Computer Now. Here's How to Make It Verify Trust First.
When Claude calls another agent's API during Computer Use, how does it know that agent is trustworthy? 17 MCP tools that solve this.
#ai#security#mcp
Why AI Agents Need Verifiable Identity
In a world of autonomous agents, identity isn't optional. It's the foundation for trust, accountability, and commerce.
#ai#identity#trust
Add Trust Verification to Your AI Agent in 3 Lines of Code
A practical guide to adding cryptographic trust verification to any AI agent using the AgentStamp SDK.
#tutorial#sdk#javascript