NIST NCCoE Agent Identity and Authorization Concept Paper: Public Comment Deadline April 2 — Proposes Treating Agents as First-Class Identity Entities

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NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published 'Accelerating the Adoption of Software and AI Agent Identity and Authorization' with public comment closing April 2, 2026. The paper proposes treating AI agents as identifiable entities within enterprise identity systems rather than anonymous automation running under shared credentials. CAISI has scheduled April virtual listening sessions collecting sector-specific feedback from financial services, healthcare, and education — this is the US government's first concrete move toward agent identity standards.