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The inheritance problem: Why agentic AI needs a unified identity foundation

You’ll learn:

  • How AI agents create identity inheritance chains that span humans, non-human identities (NHIs), and agents — and why those chains persist
  • Why fragmented identity data leaves security and IAM teams blind to the full scope of such risks
  • How a unified identity data layer provides complete visibility and risk-scoring across all three identity types
July 13, 2026
2:00 PM ET
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Every enterprise now operates with three types of identity: humans, non-human identities (NHIs), and AI agents. The challenge isn't just managing a third population category. It's also that AI agents actively connect all three — inheriting permissions, delegating access, and binding identities to assets and to each other. Each connection can outlive the identity that created it.

Consider a common scenario: a human builds an AI agent that uses NHIs to operate. That agent executes actions, delegates responsibilities, and creates a chain of inherited permissions. When the human leaves, the agent and its NHIs remain — along with every privilege they accumulated. What was a managed chain becomes an uncontrolled inheritance chain. No one owns it. No one can see it end-to-end.

This is the Three Identity Problem — and it exposes a structural gap in how IAM was built. Traditional IAM frameworks were designed for humans, stretched to cover NHIs, and are now breaking under agentic AI. This happens not because agents are numerous, but because they are connective, spanning identity silos that were never designed to talk to each other.

Eliminating security risks caused by this gap requires a unified view of identity data across all identity types — correlating human accounts, NHI credentials, and agent relationships into a single, continuously updated identity graph. Without that foundation, risk scoring is incomplete, inheritance chains are invisible, and security teams are underprepared and always reacting.

Event Speakers

Dr. Charles Herder
Co-Founder at Badge Inc

Dr. Charles Herder, Co-Founder of Badge Inc., is a recognized and published subject matter expert and thought leader in cryptography, systems security, AI, and quantum computing, and has been an invited speaker and author at USSTRATCOM, Business Intelligence Group, the Advanced Cyber Security Center, and MIT, among others. He is at the forefront of industry leadership around agentic AI and the cryptographic foundations of trust in the AI era. Dr. Herder holds four degrees from MIT including his Ph.D. in cryptography and computer science, and he holds 35+ patents.

Dr. Herder has worked on embedded systems security at Texas Instruments, launched a cybersecurity company that was acquired by a public company leader in network assurance, and most recently is the Co-Founder of Badge Inc., the award-winning privacy and AI company enabling Identity without Secrets™.

Dr. Herder is also Chair of Badge’s CISO Council, dedicated to modernizing traditional cybersecurity approaches, alongside industry experts advancing privacy-preserving security. Badge’s CISO Council brings together the top minds from the field to advance the industry toward better security, better privacy, and better user experience, without compromising in any category. Dr. Herder’s expertise in developing stronger, more resilient IT infrastructure was recently featured in Dark Reading, offering a “wake up call” for the industry.

Akshay Srinivas Rajanbabu
Distinguished Engineer, Solution Consulting at Radiant Logic

Akshay Srinivas is a forward-thinking IT strategist with a deep passion for revolutionizing identity and access management. With extensive experience in designing and implementing large-scale identity ecosystems, his expertise spans identity management, modern authentication solutions, robust identity verification processes, and dynamic risk detection. Akshay has exceeded expectations in strengthening security frameworks while driving innovation for multiple organizations.

Andy Weeks
Independent Cybersecurity Advisor at Independent

Andy Weeks is an independent cybersecurity advisor with 25 years of experience building and scaling enterprise identity programs at Fortune 10 scale. As VP of IAM at Cencora and AVP of IAM at Humana — leading a 235-person organization with a $26M budget — he has navigated aggressive M&A cycles, complex regulatory environments, and large-scale digital transformation. Andy speaks from the practitioner’s lens: what actually works in the real world, at real scale, in organizations where identity is genuinely hard.

Mandy Logan
Brainstem Hacker and InfoSec Enthusiast at Redacted

Advanced, multi-faceted professional with background in SWPP, construction management, functional architect/engineer to field liaison ship, commercial design, and marketing/business development. Re-entering world following fantastic recovery from intense injuries. Using experience and drive to focus on data science, tech development for non-verbal autistics, biohacking and building up the information security community. I’m a fighter, a comic, and a re-abled person through and through, with desire for positive change everywhere I go.