The OpenID Foundation is pleased to welcome JumpCloud as a new Sustaining Corporate Member. 

JumpCloud is the AI-powered unified IT management platform designed to secure the modern workforce. By consolidating identity, device, and access management, JumpCloud provides intelligent, secure IT that scales from human users to autonomous AI agents.. JumpCloud helps organizations around the globe eliminate complexity and turn AI risk into an optimized advantage, ensuring the right people and agents have secure access to the right resources at all times.

Their membership reflects growing recognition across the industry that open identity standards are central to addressing the evolving security challenges created by AI agents and the modern, decentralised enterprise. Their participation brings valuable perspective on a rapidly emerging identity challenge: how to securely manage autonomous AI agents operating across platforms on behalf of users and organisations.

“Our membership in the OpenID Foundation isn’t just about supporting existing standards; it’s about helping to make sure the industry has a unified way forward as those standards are adopted for AI and other use cases,” said Joel Rennich, senior vice president of product management, JumpCloud. “We very strongly believe that the answers to tomorrow’s identity challenges lie in the industry working together to ensure vendors, service providers, and users have a standards-based approach to identity management.”

This is an area the OpenID Foundation has been actively working to address. The Foundation recently published a whitepaper on AI agent identity management, exploring how existing and emerging OpenID standards can provide the technical foundation for securing agentic AI systems, ensuring agents can be authenticated, authorised, and held accountable as they perform complex tasks on behalf of users and organisations.

JumpCloud’s commitment to promoting a standards based approach to identity management across vendors, service providers, and users aligns closely with this work. As a Sustaining Corporate Member, JumpCloud joins other global thought leaders on the Foundation's Board of Directors from the identity, digital platform and ecosystem communities, who jointly ensure the Foundation delivers on its mission as an open standards body. 

The OpenID Foundation has long maintained that robust, interoperable identity standards depend on broad industry collaboration, and JumpCloud’s membership strengthens that collective effort.

Gail Hodges, Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, said: “We are very pleased to welcome JumpCloud to the OpenID Foundation. Their focus on extending identity management beyond human users to autonomous AI agents speaks directly to the work our community is doing to ensure open standards keep pace with the realities of the modern enterprise. 

“We look forward to their active involvement in shaping the next generation of identity standards as AI driven use cases continue to place new demands on the protocols that underpin digital trust.”

About the OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy-preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, OAuth2 - the FAPI standard for interoperable, high security - has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue to enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate. Find out more at openid.net.

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