Strata Identity is introducing a new product, Identity Orchestration for AI Agents, built on Strata’s Maverics vendor-agnostic identity fabric and hybrid air-gap architecture to offer identity guardrails and observability for AI agents without limiting identity provider (IDP) choice.
Strata’s new solution issues short-lived, scoped credentials at runtime; enforcing fine-grained, policy-as-code authorization, including human-in-the-loop approval for sensitive actions; and logging every agent decision and MCP-initiated API call for full auditability.
“Autonomous AI agents now act as users in enterprise systems—but without user-level guardrails or observability. So, Strata is bringing policy-based identity security to runtime where agents live,” said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity and co-author of the SAML standard. “Strata’s Maverics supports open identity frameworks such as OAuth and emerging standards like the AI-native MCP protocol, enabling seamless interoperability across vendors, platforms, and agent ecosystems at scale.”
Strata’s Maverics treats every AI agent as a first-class identity, governed by the same rigor as human users, to provide zero-trust governance for autonomous AI agents, according to the company.
To enable secure, auditable, and policy-driven control over AI agents, Maverics Identity Orchestration provides the following key capabilities:
- Dynamic, runtime authentication for agents using delegated OAuth flows—supporting PKCE and SPIFFE/SVID to enable ephemeral, scoped trust without static credentials.
- Policy-driven, attribute- and context-aware authorization, through On-Behalf-Of (OBO) flows with optional human-in-the-loop verification to enforce step-up approvals for sensitive or high-risk actions.
- Just-in-time issuance/provisioning of agent identities into any cloud or on-premises IDP, including automatic credential rotation, lifecycle expiry, and ownership assignment.
- Full-stack observability through OpenTelemetry, providing near real-time, correlated traces of both human and agent interactions for forensic lineage, risk analysis, and audit through your existing reporting and analytics tools.
With extensive input from Strata’s design partners—including leaders in global financial services, high-tech manufacturing, defense, and retail—Strata’s Identity Orchestration for AI Agents is built to meet enterprise requirements for guardrails and observability over the secure use of agentic workflows, enabling seamless interoperability across vendors, platforms, and agent ecosystems, the company said.
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