Open standards are essential for building secure, interoperable, and trustworthy AI ecosystems. Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, discusses the IPSIE working group’s efforts to create consistent identity security profiles, why protocols like MCP and A2A require authentication frameworks to safely manage AI agents’ access and communication, and how Cross App Access provides centralized control over AI-driven and app-to-app interactions.
Segment Resources: https://www.okta.com/newsroom/articles/old-security-challenges--new-ai-risks--managing-authorization-in https://www.okta.com/newsroom/press-releases/okta-introduces-cross-app-access-to-help-secure-ai-agents-in-the/ https://www.okta.com/blog/ai/securing-the-ai-agent-ecosystem/
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Aaron Parecki is Director of Identity Standards at Okta with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is active in multiple standards development organizations (SDOs), including IETF, OpenID Foundation, and W3C. He is an editor of OAuth 2.1 along with several other OAuth specifications, and co-chairs the SCIM working group at IETF, and the IPSIE working group at the OpenID Foundation. He has taught the fundamentals of OAuth and online security to thousands of developers worldwide through his book OAuth 2.0 Simplified as well as video courses and live online trainings.
