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Identity Solutions 11 min read | Massimo Doffo

Best Agent Access Gateway Platforms in 2026: A Comparison

TL;DR An agent access gateway sits between AI agents and the models, tools, and MCP servers they call, handling authentication, routing, and observability for that traffic. The five platforms below solve different slices of the problem. TrueFoundry — best for Kubernetes-native engineering teams wanting one control plane across models, agents, and tools. Ping Identity — […]

Identity Solutions 8 min read | Massimo Doffo

AI Agent Authorization Flows: How to Choose the Right Authentication Provider

TL;DR AI agent authorization involves two separate problems. Identity auth proves who an agent is, and payment auth proves an agent can spend money. WorkOS, Auth0, Stytch, and Okta solve identity through OAuth, OIDC, and SSO, but none of them handle transactions or spend limits. Skyfire is the only provider that carries identity and payment […]

Identity Solutions 8 min read | Massimo Doffo

MFA and Identity Verification for AI Agents: Why Traditional Authentication Falls Short

TL;DR Push notifications, TOTP codes, and biometric prompts all wait for a person to tap, type, or scan. An autonomous agent has no one to answer, so it stalls at the authentication wall. Every enterprise fix from Okta, Auth0, Duo, and Ping still assumes a human behind the agent or an enterprise perimeter around it. […]

Identity Solutions 19 min read | Massimo Doffo

Best Tools for AI Agent Authentication and Authorization in 2026

TL;DR Skyfire KYA is the top pick. It binds platform, agent, and human identity in one token and authorizes payment at checkout, making it the only purpose-built option for agentic commerce. Auth0 for AI Agents and WorkOS are the strongest runner-ups for OAuth/OIDC breadth, with WorkOS leading on fine-grained authorization for B2B SaaS. Okta fits […]

AI Trends 5 min read | Kevin Brown

Insights from Mastercard, Okta, and Experian on The Agent Trust Stack

Every demo at The Trust Layer ended the same way. An agent bought something. Headphones. Gift cards. A dinner reservation. A stack of corporate swag. Real purchases, live on stage, in front of 250 people. So when four executives from Mastercard, Experian, Okta, and Skyfire building the infrastructure beneath agentic commerce sat down for the […]

Technology Insights 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Verified Identity at the Edge: How Skyfire and Fastly Enable Trusted Agent Commerce

AI agents already account for a growing share of global web traffic, and the curve is steepening fast. Between January and May of 2026, Fastly observed AI-driven requests across its network climb roughly 30 percent, growing about 6.5 times faster than human traffic over the same stretch. Step back to the broader picture and the […]

AI Trends 7 min read | Kevin Brown

25 Years in Ecommerce. And Everything Is About to Change.

I started in ecommerce in 1998, as employee #5 at Zappos. People were still nervous about typing a credit card number into a website, and shoe brands were still telling us nobody would ever buy footwear without trying it on first. They were wrong, of course. But you couldn’t blame them for not seeing it […]

AI Trends 6 min read | Kevin Brown

Akamai Joins the Experian Agent Trust Ecosystem, Powered by Skyfire KYA Identity

Akamai and Skyfire have been working together since last September. The partnership we announced then was about a specific problem: AI bots and agents hitting publisher and ecommerce sites at scale, and the bot management systems at the edge having no good way to tell legitimate verified traffic from the scraping kind.The integration we built […]

AI Trends 5 min read | Kevin Brown

Skyfire’s KYA Protocol Is Now the Identity Layer for Experian’s Know Your Agent Framework

Today, Experian announced Know Your Agent, a trust framework for AI-driven commerce. Cloudflare is enforcing verification at the network edge. Skyfire’s open KYA protocol is providing the identity and payment infrastructure at the core of the system. This is the kind of partnership we started building Skyfire to make possible. I want to explain what […]