Solving the AI agent identity problem
From Risky Business Features by Risky Business Media
May 4, 2026 · 40 min
About this episode
James Wilson and Brad Arkin discuss the challenges and emerging trends in AI agent identity and credential management.
In this podcast James Wilson and Brad Arkin chat about emerging trends in AI agent identity and credential management. Brad was formerly the CISO of Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce, and is now working with all sorts of companies that are deploying AI. With everyone now in at least a large-scale pilot of agentic AI, the issue of how to manage agent identities and credentials is still an unsolved problem. But, some interesting patterns are emerging.
People in this episode
Host: James Wilson
Guest: Brad Arkin
Topics covered
- AI agent identity
- credential management
- emerging trends
- agentic AI
- identity management
Keywords
- AI
- identity management
- credential management
- agentic AI
- emerging trends
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Adobe, Cisco, Salesforce
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