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AI agents pose risks to sensitive business information and processes.
New research from OIDF details these risks and potential solutions.
Organizations should extend their governance practices to AI agents.
Although new research from the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) doesn't come right out and warn that the world's digital infrastructure is hurtling towards a science fiction-like singularity where everything is literally connected to everything, it makes a pretty convincing technical argument for how agentic AI, if left unchecked, will be the protagonist that brings it to us.
Released today, the research suggests that AI agents could dangerously and easily transcend connectivity barriers once thought to be inviolable unless the industry prioritizes and cooperates on the development and deployment of a new breed of open, interoperable AI-specific identity and access management (IAM) standards and best practices.
The paper largely focuses on the needs of organizations that must strike a balance between the attraction to agentic AI and the need to reasonably govern its access and behavior with internal and external sources of data and computational services.
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