Some applications at the center of every large organization actually sit at the boundaries between mixed user populations — think employees, partners, contractors, vendors, and even machines. These shared services applications keep the business running through a combination of fragile custom code and mixed vendor environments.
Mark Callahan is joined by Eve Maler — newly appointed Agentic Identity Program Ambassador and one of the most respected voices in digital identity. Together, she and Mark unpack what’s broken in today’s identity patterns and explore how identity orchestration restores trust without slowing innovation.
While the security world has long treated Zero Trust as an aspirational goal, Aldo argues that the agentic era changes the equation. When AI agents are granted credentials and allowed to act on our behalf, we’re no longer starting from zero — we’re starting from trust, and must design systems to constrain it dynamically.