Podcast: Securing AI Agents: Identity, Authorization, and the DPACT Framework
The DPACT framework: how to build guardrails into autonomous agents before they go rogue.

Why it matters
As AI agents move from pilot to production, identity and authorization become existential security problems. This framework (Delegation, Policy, Auditability, Context, Time) is a practical blueprint practitioners need to prevent agents from exceeding their authority.
The key facts
7 to knowDPACT framework: Delegation, Policy, Auditability, Context, Time
Shift from token-based access to bounded, delegated authority
Focus on identity and authorization in agentic systems
Guardrailing autonomous agents as production deployment risk
Focus on bounded, delegated authority vs. simple token-based access
Identity and authorization as critical agent-deployment challenge
Speaker: Sahil Agarwal
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Publisher excerpt: In this episode, Sahil Agarwal talks about the critical challenges of identity, authorisation, and security in the age of AI agents. Sahil introduces the DPACT framework (Delegation, Policy, Auditability, Context, and Time) as a blueprint for building responsible, guardrailed agentic systems,…
