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Agentic AI Identity and Access Management: A New Approach
Open Until: 07/03/2025
Traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, primarily designed for human users or static machine identities via protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAML, prove fundamentally inadequate for the dynamic, interdependent, and often ephemeral nature of AI agents operating at scale within Multi Agent Systems (MAS) – a computational system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents that work collectively.
This paper posits the imperative for a novel Agentic AI - IAM framework:
- We deconstruct the limitations of existing protocols when applied to MAS, illustrating with concrete examples why their coarse-grained controls, single-entity focus, and lack of context-awareness falter.
- We then propose a comprehensive framework built upon rich, verifiable Agent Identities (IDs),leveraging Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs),that encapsulate an agent's capabilities, provenance, behavioral scope, and security posture.
Our framework includes an Agent Naming Service (ANS) for secure and capability-aware discovery, dynamic fine-grained access control mechanisms (ABAC, PBAC, JIT), and critically, a unified global session management and policy enforcement layer for real-time control and consistent revocation across heterogeneous agent communication protocols. We also explore how Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) enable privacy-preserving attribute disclosure and verifiable policy compliance.
We outline the architecture, operational lifecycle, innovative contributions, and security considerations of this new IAM paradigm, aiming to establish the foundational trust, accountability, and security necessary for the burgeoning field of agentic AI and the complex ecosystems they will inhabit.
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Open Until: 07/03/2025