{"slug": "identity-infrastructure-fails-to-secure-ai-agents", "title": "Identity Infrastructure Fails to Secure AI Agents", "summary": "AI-agent-driven transactions surged 805% year-over-year by Black Friday 2025, with agents driving over $22 billion in global online sales, but identity infrastructure has failed to keep pace. Socure CEO Johnny Ayers calls for a Know Your Agent (KYA) framework with four capabilities to secure agentic commerce, as the AI agents market is projected to grow from $5.4 billion in 2024 to $236 billion by 2034.", "body_md": "AI-agent-driven transactions have scaled far faster than identity infrastructure: by Black Friday 2025, AI-driven traffic to US retail sites rose 805% year-over-year, with agents driving over $22 billion in global online sales (Adobe data, cited by Socure CEO Johnny Ayers in PYMNTS). Ayers argues that agentic commerce requires a Know Your Agent (KYA) framework parallel to Know Your Customer, built on four capabilities: establishing agent identity, confirming permitted actions, maintaining accountability for every action taken, and continuously monitoring behavior against approved parameters. The global AI agents market is valued at $5.4 billion (2024) and projected to reach $236 billion by 2034 (Grand View Research). For practitioners, KYA maps to concrete engineering priorities: machine-identity lifecycle management, delegated authorization standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC), tamper-evident logging, and real-time policy enforcement - areas where no interoperable standards yet exist at scale.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/identity-infrastructure-fails-to-secure-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/identity-infrastructure-fails-to-secure-ai-agents-453edb97", "published_at": "2026-06-29 08:00:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-29 09:02:44.645183+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Socure", "Johnny Ayers", "Adobe", "PYMNTS", "Grand View Research"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/identity-infrastructure-fails-to-secure-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/identity-infrastructure-fails-to-secure-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/identity-infrastructure-fails-to-secure-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/identity-infrastructure-fails-to-secure-ai-agents.jsonld"}}