Agent identity: Closing the "accountability vacuum" with humans

Opublikowano: 2026-06-09

Identity used to be straightforward: authenticate a user, authorize an action, log the request, and move on. Agentic systems complicate that model because the actor isn’t always the human anymore, and when something goes wrong, responsibility can disappear into what Andrew Bud calls an “accountability vacuum.” In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVittie talks with Andrew Bud of iProov about why this isn’t just a security nuance, but a broader stability problem. You can’t punish, retrain, or sue an agent. Yet agents can still take actions with real consequenc...