Authentication and Authorization Patterns for Agents and MCP

As AI agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) move from experimentation to enterprise adoption, traditional identity and access models fall short. Autonomous agents must interact securely with users, APIs, and even payment systems — raising new challenges for trust, policy enforcement, and compliance.

In this webinar, Christian Posta, Field CTO at Solo.io, will share practical authentication and authorization patterns for agent-driven environments, including:

• Defining agent identity (OAuth, SPIFFE, non-human credentials)
• Applying delegated authorization and dynamic consent
• Enforcing context-rich policies across distributed systems
• Clarifying MCP authentication vs authorization
• Designing upstream MCP authorization patterns for secure API access
• Learning from the Agent Payment Protocol (AP2) as a real-world case study

Attendees will gain a framework to establish trust, balance developer velocity with enterprise-grade controls, and align security with organizational and compliance needs.