paperOctober 2025Unreviewed

Identity Management for Agentic AI: The new frontier of authorization, authentication, and security for an AI agent world

Tobin South, Subramanya Nagabhushanaradhya, A. Dissanayaka, Sarah Cecchetti, George H. L. Fletcher, Victor Lu, A. Pietropaolo, Dean H. Saxe, J. Lombardo, Abhishek Maligehalli Shivalingaiah, Stan Bounev, Alex Keisner, Andor Kesselman, Zack Proser, Ginny Fahs, Andrew Bunyea, Ben Moskowitz, Atul Tulshibagwale, Dazza Greenwood, Jiaxin Pei, A. Pentland

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Abstract

The rapid rise of AI agents presents urgent challenges in authentication, authorization, and identity management. Current agent-centric protocols (like MCP) highlight the demand for clarified best practices in authentication and authorization. Looking ahead, ambitions for highly autonomous agents raise complex long-term questions regarding scalable access control, agent-centric identities, AI workload differentiation, and delegated authority. This OpenID Foundation whitepaper is for stakeholders

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@misc{south2025identity,
  title = {{Identity Management for Agentic AI: The new frontier of authorization, authentication, and security for an AI agent world}},
  author = {Tobin South and Subramanya Nagabhushanaradhya and A. Dissanayaka and Sarah Cecchetti and George H. L. Fletcher and Victor Lu and A. Pietropaolo and Dean H. Saxe and J. Lombardo and Abhishek Maligehalli Shivalingaiah and Stan Bounev and Alex Keisner and Andor Kesselman and Zack Proser and Ginny Fahs and Andrew Bunyea and Ben Moskowitz and Atul Tulshibagwale and Dazza Greenwood and Jiaxin Pei and A. Pentland},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  eprint = {2510.25819},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2510.25819},
  url = {https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c482e9aa341ecd5dbf545aa16df9c6815aa55650}
}