What is the AI agent identity problem?

By Josh Woodruff•May 17, 2026•8 min read•

CybersecurityZero TrustAI AgentsAI StrategySecurity

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About Josh Woodruff

Founder & CEO, MassiveScale.AI | Founding Chair, Agentic Trust Framework at CSAI

Creator of the Agentic Trust Framework, the first Zero Trust governance spec for AI agents. Author of Agentic AI + Zero Trust (foreword by Zero Trust creator John Kindervag). 30 years of security leadership at Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and Genentech.

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