A Crash Course on Agentic Identity

Everyone agrees agentic security matters and that identity comes first. Far fewer can explain what that means when an unknown agent shows up and wants access. This on-demand session is the plain-language foundation: what happens the moment an agent lands on your website, and what every CISO and fraud leader should watch for. No prior knowledge assumed.

Part of Agentic Identity, Explained, a five-part webinar series from Vouched. We wrote KYA-OS, the open standard for agent identity and delegation, and donated it to the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Each session shows the standard working in a real environment.

Key takeaways

• What cryptographic identity actually means, and why a signed credential is not the same as an API key or an OAuth token
• The difference between authenticating an agent and authorizing it, and why most tools only do the first
• What happens when every rule you have assumes a human, and agents start transacting for your customers
• Why open standards matter, and how to avoid lock-in to a single AI company
• What happens in the seconds after an agent arrives, and the decisions you get to make at each step

Speakers

Dylan Hobbs
Founding Principal Engineer, Vouched

Rosalyn Curato
Chief Innovation Officer & GM, Agentic Security, Vouched

Sachio Iwamoto
Director, Principal Architect, Kyndryl Research (co-presenter)