# Back to the Future: Why Agentic AI Needs a Strong Identity Foundation

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- Publisher: NIST
- Author credit: Bill Fisher, Ryan Galluzzo
- Category: Cyber
- Original publication time: 2026-08-27T12:00:00Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-01T17:27:56Z
- Original source: https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/back-future-why-agentic-ai-needs-strong-identity-foundation
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-8821d073fe28a9ca6f3b

## The brief

Giving AI agents a person's credentials can recreate familiar identity-management problems at machine speed. NIST's analysis highlights shared credentials, long-lived tokens and excessive permissions, and points to existing authorization standards as a starting point. It also warns that repeated human approval requests can create consent fatigue rather than dependable oversight.

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