Getting Cozy with COAZ: Securing APIs and AI Agents with Standardized Authorization
By Atul Tulshibagwale and Alex Olivier, co-chairs of the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group The views expressed in this post are those of the authors, in their capacity as co-chairs of the AuthZEN Working Group, and do not necessarily represent the position of the OpenID Foundation as a whole. AuthZEN is a great way to […]
AuthZEN at Identiverse 2026: authorization in the agent era
By Alex Olivier Authorization, and specifically authorization for AI agents, emerged as the defining challenge of the year. That shift was visible at Identiverse 2026. One marker of how far the work has come is that the AuthZEN sessions ran as a full masterclass and a main-program talk rather than the side birds-of-a-feather slots such […]
Let’s Discuss Identity Management in AI
By co-chairs: Atul Tulshibagwale, SGNL, Tobin South, WorkOS and Stanford, and Jeff Lombardo, AWS At the recently concluded Identiverse conference, prompted by Jeff Lombardo of AWS, a few of the attendees got together to discuss various security proposals relating to AI. It was clear that AI and identity communities have been developing in silos. Such […]