Episode 470: What identity does an Agent have?

A few weeks back, we talked with Jamf about identifying hallmarks of AI Use on device. However, on-device AI use is only part of the story these days. We welcome back Joel Rennich from JumpCloud to talk about what agent identity looks like in July of 2026.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
• Matt Slocum - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-klrc-aiagent-auth-00.html
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/wimse/documents/
• https://spiffe.io/
• https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe
• https://oauth.net/2/dpop/
• RFC-8693 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8693.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/10/2006-throwback-took-down-telstra-national-phone-networ
• https://www.slate.auto/en

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