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In today’s Tech Pulse, gain insight into how:

• Biometric identity systems are transforming trust in agentic AI, ensuring autonomous systems act with verified human consent.

• The passwordless future is redefining digital identity with phishing-resistant authentication, passkeys, and decentralized credentials.

• AI agent identity governance is becoming essential to manage lifecycles, prevent privilege drift, and eliminate security blind spots.

Each of these articles is penned by members of Forbes Technology Council, key luminaries shaping the future of technology leadership.

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Biometric Identity: The Key to Trusting Agentic AI

Agentic AI brings systems that operate autonomously on our behalf, from booking travel to initiating payments. While this unlocks exceptional efficiency, it raises a critical question: How do we trust AI to act with our consent?

The answer may rest in biometric identity systems, which directly tie AI actions to verified human authority.

Here’s how biometrics help address trust at machine speed:

🔍 'Know Your Agent' Framework: Verifiable digital "passports" ensure AI agents act transparently, preventing fraud and unauthorized actions.

👁️ Anchoring Autonomy with Biometrics: Voice, facial, and behavioral recognition provide unhackable proof of human consent.

💡 Combatting Deepfakes: Biometric liveness detection defends against synthetic identities in the age of generative AI.

🔑 Evolving Delegation Models: Clearly defined roles for user authority, from direct execution to AI autonomy, simplify accountability.

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Goodbye, Passwords: A Look Into the Future of Digital Identity

The age of usernames and passwords is ending. Emerging threats, user demand for seamless experiences, and the explosion of IoT are driving a massive shift in digital authentication.

By 2026, we’ll see a transformed authentication landscape defined by three pillars: phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication; passkeys; and decentralized identity.

Here’s how each pillar is reshaping trust in the digital world:

🛡️ Passwordless Authentication: Standards like FIDO2/WebAuthn use cryptographic keys to eliminate passwords and make phishing a thing of the past.

🔑 The Rise of Passkeys: These synced, passwordless credentials work across devices and platforms. By 2026, expect seamless, invisible integration with browsers and operating systems.

📜 Decentralized Identity: Verifiable Credentials stored in digital wallets let users securely share identity data (such as a degree or legal ID) without relying on third-party verification.

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Securing AI Agents: From Onboarding to Offboarding

As AI agents integrate into workflows at scale, they introduce a new kind of identity risk: poorly governed lifecycles. These agents often accumulate unchecked privileges, outlive their usefulness, and become targets for attackers. To mitigate, organizations must rethink AI identity governance with the same scrutiny applied to human users.

Key strategies to secure AI agent lifecycles include:

👶 Streamlined Onboarding: Avoid hardcoded credentials or shared tokens. Automate provisioning to set policies, access limits, and expiration dates upfront.

⚡ Prevent Privilege Drift: Implement continuous permission reviews and ultra-short-lived secrets to ensure agents don’t gain unintended access over time.

🕵️ Analyze Toxic Combinations: Use graph-based analysis to spot dangerous privilege overlaps between agents before they create exploitable pathways.

🛑 Automate Decommissioning: Ensure agents are retired when their tasks end, with tokens revoked and orphan identities flagged for investigation.

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