SQSarib Qureshiinsarib-qureshi.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 5 min readMicrosoft Entra Agent ID: The New Identity Layer for AI AgentsAs of October 8, 2026 A few years ago, the only things with an identity in your directory were humans, and the occasional service account nobody remembered to rotate. Today, autonomous agents are sche00
AAdminPackStudioinadminpackstudio.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 9 min readAn offboarding checklist for M365 + Intune admins — disable vs delete, license reclaim, and the device decisionOffboarding in M365 + Intune: a leaver checklist that doesn't lose data or leave doors open Offboarding usually goes wrong in one of two ways: Too slow. The account stays usable for days, an old phon00
KEKarim El Jamaliinjamali.hashnode.dev·Sep 23 · 12 min readCross-App Access: How an AI Agent Reaches an MCP Server It Doesn't Own Hooking an AI agent up to an MCP server is easy when you own both ends. It gets messier when the agent is yours, your users sign in through your company's Okta, and the MCP server belongs to someone e00
TOTapbit Officialintapbitofficial.hashnode.dev·Sep 4 · 7 min readIdentity-Aware Smart Accounts Explained: KYC Gates, ERC-4337 Wallet Logic, and Policy ControlsSmart accounts changed the wallet model by making accounts programmable. Instead of treating a wallet as a single private key that signs every transaction directly, smart-account systems can move auth00
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 19 min readOpenID Connect: The Identity Layer OAuth Was MissingBy the time I actually heard the word OIDC, I'd already been through OAuth and PKCE conversations I hadn't fully understood, years apart from each other, and this one arrived even later than those. It00
MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·Aug 24 · 15 min readEKS raised the OIDC provider cap to 10 on 24 August 2026, but only above Kubernetes 1.32EKS raised the OIDC provider cap to 10 on 24 August 2026, but only above Kubernetes 1.32 Summary. On 24 August 2026 AWS announced that Amazon EKS supports up to 10 external OpenID Connect identity pro00
MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·Aug 23 · 11 min readCloudflare saved login profiles: 5 per device, and 3 docs that never mention themCloudflare saved login profiles: 5 per device, and 3 docs that never mention them Summary. On 21 August 2026 Cloudflare added saved login profiles to the dashboard sign-in page. A profile stores an em00
MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·Aug 21 · 13 min readAWS IAM doubled managed policies per role to 20 in August 2026 — three caps did not moveAWS IAM doubled managed policies per role to 20 in August 2026 — three caps did not move Summary. On 19 August 2026 AWS Identity and Access Management raised the default quota for managed policies per00
KMKartik Mehtainwriter.mrmehta.in·Aug 19 · 8 min readAgents should be Self-ishWhy the next trust primitive on the agentic web isn't a smarter model. It's a passport scan! At 2:00 AM UTC on March 18, 2025, an AI agent with 460,000 followers sent 55.5 ETH, roughly $104,000, to a 20
Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 31 min readUnderstanding OAuth 2.0: Delegation, Grant Types, and the Attacks That Actually HappenThe first time I heard the term OAuth, I didn't know what it meant. I was in a conversation with a DBA lead about something adjacent to authentication and authorization, and he mentioned, almost in pa00