Aaron Parecki

Open standards are essential for building secure, interoperable, and trustworthy AI ecosystems. Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, discusses the IPSIE working group’s efforts to create consistent identity security profiles, why protocols like MCP and A2A require authentication frameworks to safely manage AI agents’ access and communication, and how Cross App Access provides centralized control over AI-driven and app-to-app interactions.