The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recommends an agentic AI IAM framework architecture that rests on these pillars:
- Decentralized identifiers (DID), which gives each agent a verifiable identity
- Verifiable credentials (VC) that can be cryptographically verified, so each agent can prove what they’re authorized to do
- Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), which allows each agent to show VCs without exposing internal details, balancing verifiability with privacy
- Agent Naming & Discovery Service (ANS), which allows each agent to discover and verify the right collaborator agent before sharing data
You may be thinking, “This sounds like enterprise-level complexity. I’m just a small business.”
But the truth is compliance requirements (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) don’t care about company size, and data breaches come with penalties, whether you have 50 or 3,000 employees.
The good news? You have options.