What happened
Entrust unveiled (July 14, 2026) a co-development program bringing enterprise customers, banks, and system integrators together to build identity, authorization, cryptographic assurance, and accountability infrastructure ('trust plane') for autonomous AI agents, leveraging its PKI/Onfido identity-verification portfolio.
Why it matters
First major identity-security vendor framing agent identity as a distinct, fundable enterprise workstream, citing IBM data that 77% of CIOs/CISOs say AI adoption is outpacing governance; complements Microsoft's parallel least-privilege-for-agents guidance published the same week.
Applicability
Financial institutions and enterprises moving agentic AI from pilot to production should engage now to shape identity/authorization reference architectures before broad deployment.