Episode 470: What identity does an Agent have?

A few weeks back, we talked with Jamf about identifying hallmarks of AI Use on device. However, on-device AI use is only part of the story these days. We welcome back Joel Rennich from JumpCloud to talk about what agent identity looks like in July of 2026.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge, CTO, I.M.P. Concerts – @tbridge@theinternet.social
• Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom
• Selina Ali, Product Manager, Addigy – LinkedIn

Guests:

• Joel Rennich, SVP of Product, JumpCloud – LinkedIn
• Matt Slocum, Principal Engineer, JumpCloud – LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-klrc-aiagent-auth-00.html 
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/wimse/documents/
• https://spiffe.io/
• https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe
• https://oauth.net/2/dpop/
• RFC-8693 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8693.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/10/2006-throwback-took-down-telstra-national-phone-networ
• https://www.slate.auto/en

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