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Resolving the AI Agent Identity Crisis: Many Standards, One Direction

Resolving the AI Agent Identity Crisis: Many Standards, One Direction

When an AI agent calls a payment API, deploys code, or hands work to another agent, a valid access token answers only part of the security question. The harder question is what constitutes that agent’s identity in the first place. Is it the code being executed? The underlying model? The runtime instance? The credential it presents? The person it acts for? The intent of its current task?

Agentic Identity Security
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Oct 09, 2026
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Advancing Secure Software Pipelines: NIST NCCoE DevSecOps Build 2 and Palo Alto Networks Contribution to Identity and Secrets Security

Advancing Secure Software Pipelines: NIST NCCoE DevSecOps Build 2 and Palo ...

The successful completion of Build 2 marks another significant milestone for the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Secure Software Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) Practi...
Oct 05, 2026
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Idira Platform Updates (August 2026): What Shipped for Machine and AI Agent Identity
Agentic Identity Security, Machine Identity Security

Idira Platform Updates (August 2026): What Shipped for Machine and AI Agent...

A lot ships across the identity platform every month, and most of it lands in the release notes and then quietly disappears. That’s a shame, because s...
Sep 30, 2026
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You Discovered Every Identity. Now Control What It Can Do (Part 3)
Agentic Identity Security, Identity and Access Management, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Idira Platform, Privileged Access Management

You Discovered Every Identity. Now Control What It Can Do (Part 3)

The core principle of Idira is this: Every identity is privileged. Every privilege must be...
Sep 23, 2026
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You Do Not Have Three Years
Agentic Identity Security, Frontier AI, Points of View

You Do Not Have Three Years

I spend most of my week talking with CISOs and CIOs. When the conversation turns to frontier AI, I notice a troubling pattern. Everyone agrees the capability is real. Everyone agrees identity security is where it lands. And almost everyone...
Sep 21, 2026
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Is Your IdP a Lightweight at Identity Governance?
Identity Governance and Administration, Idira Platform, Machine Identity Security, Products and Services, Zero Standing Privilege

Is Your IdP a Lightweight at Identity Governance?

Your IdP Identity Provider (IdP) stood in the center of the ring, hyped up the crowd, and made their grand introduction:...
Jul 30, 2026
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Why Cryptographically Verifiable SPIFFE Identity is Key to Scaling AI Agents
Agentic Identity Security, AI Security, Products and Services

Why Cryptographically Verifiable SPIFFE Identity is Key to Scaling AI Agent...

What if your workforce were multiplied by a thousand overnight? Only these workers don't sleep, they never log off, and are capable of making millions...
Jul 20, 2026
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What Does
Agentic Identity Security, Non-Human Identity Security, Privileged Access Management, Products and Services

What Does "Democratizing Privilege Controls" Mean? (Part 1)

Ever since IMPACT, the energy from the Idira launch has been unstoppable. The customer conversations have not slowed dow...
Jul 01, 2026
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Idira Identity Security Platform Reaches FedRAMP High Milestone
Products and Services, Public Sector, Vertical

Idira Identity Security Platform Reaches FedRAMP High Milestone

Executive Summary: Palo Alto Networks has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization for its Identity Security Platform, providing federal agencies with a pr...
Jun 03, 2026
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How to Assess Maturity When Machine Identities Outnumber Humans 109:1
Agentic Identity Security, AI Security, Machine Identity Security, Products and Services

How to Assess Maturity When Machine Identities Outnumber Humans 109:1

Machine identities per human in the enterprise hit 109:1 this year, up from 82:1 last year. And 77% of organizations expect that number to keep climbi...
May 20, 2026
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Vibe Check Your Vibe Code: Adding Human Judgment to AI-Driven Development
Machine Identity Security, Points of View, Threat Intelligence

Vibe Check Your Vibe Code: Adding Human Judgment to AI-Driven Development

Remember when open meant visible? When a bug in open-source code left breadcrumbs you could audit? When you could trace commits, contributors, timesta...
May 12, 2026
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A Practical Guide to AI-Ready Machine Identity Governance in Finance
AI Security, Machine Identity Security, Vertical

A Practical Guide to AI-Ready Machine Identity Governance in Finance

Across financial services operations, machine identities play critical roles, but in many organizations, these cryptographic keys, API tokens, certifi...
May 12, 2026
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Idira — Our Journey to Democratize Privilege Controls
AI Security, Announcement, Products and Services

Idira — Our Journey to Democratize Privilege Controls

Introducing Idira: The AI-Driven Identity security platform. Extend Zero Standing Privilege to every human, machine, and AI agent identity in your enterprise.
May 12, 2026
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Why Cryptographically Verifiable SPIFFE Identity is Key to Scaling AI Agents
Agentic Identity Security, AI Security, Products and Services

Why Cryptographically Verifiable SPIFFE Identity is Key to Scaling AI Agent...

What if your workforce were multiplied by a thousand overnight? Only these workers don't sleep, they never log off, and are capable of making millions...
Jul 20, 2026
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Idira Identity Security Platform: Discover Every Privilege (Part 2)
Idira Platform, Privileged Access Management, Products and Services

Idira Identity Security Platform: Discover Every Privilege (Part 2)

Key Takeaway: Identity and privilege discovery continuously maps access risks across human, machine, and agentic identities. Replacing siloed tools wi...
Aug 04, 2026
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Secure AI Agents — New Controls and Visibility for MCP Data Access
Agentic Identity Security, AI Security, Announcement, Products and Services

Secure AI Agents — New Controls and Visibility for MCP Data Access

Learn how Secure AI Agents help teams discover MCP servers, control access and audit AI agent activity.
May 12, 2026
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Palo Alto Networks Featured in the GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Password Management
Announcement, Idira Platform, Workforce Password Management

Palo Alto Networks Featured in the GigaOm Radar for Enterprise Password Man...

Passwords remain one of the most persistent sources of risk in the modern enterprise. Even as organizations adopt passwordless technologies, dozens of...
Sep 10, 2026
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How to Assess Maturity When Machine Identities Outnumber Humans 109:1
Agentic Identity Security, AI Security, Machine Identity Security, Products and Services

How to Assess Maturity When Machine Identities Outnumber Humans 109:1

Machine identities per human in the enterprise hit 109:1 this year, up from 82:1 last year. And 77% of organizations expect that number to keep climbi...
May 20, 2026
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The Importance of Identity Security in Zero Trust Endpoint Defense

The Importance of Identity Security in Zero Trust Endpoint Defense

Identity security and zero trust have emerged as critical components in the defense against quickly evolving cyberthreats. Together, the solution and the approach support a default stance of “never trust, alway...
Apr 30, 2024
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Why No User Should Have Local Admin Rights

Why No User Should Have Local Admin Rights

The idea of removing local administrator rights from every. single. user. across your organization is likely to spark strong reactions. Search popular online forums for the phrase “remove local admin rights” to see exactly what I mean. But...
Jan 24, 2023
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Secure Human, Machine, and AI Identities in Kubernetes with Idira
Agentic Identity Security, Announcement, Machine Identity Security, Products and Services, Zero Standing Privilege

Secure Human, Machine, and AI Identities in Kubernetes with Idira

One challenge of managed Kubernetes is that it puts the control plane in the hands of the cloud provider, but you still...
Sep 15, 2026
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