OAuth Evolved: From Protecting Users to Empowering AI Agents Securely

🚀 OAuth Evolved: From Protecting Users to Empowering AI Agents Securely 🚀

OAuth revolutionized digital security by introducing a robust, user-centric model for delegated authorization, enabling third-party applications to access data without ever seeing user credentials. It quickly became the foundation for secure access across web and mobile platforms.
But the rise of AI agents and autonomous systems is shifting that foundation. These non-human entities require dynamic, context-aware, and secure access to resources, often without the static flows or human intervention that OAuth was originally built around.

In ecosystems like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agents discover and interact with resource servers dynamically, requiring seamless and secure integration with Authorization Servers to obtain access tokens on the fly.

This session will explore OAuth’s evolution to meet this challenge. We'll examine how emerging standards and extensions — such as Resource Server Metadata, Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR), Token Exchange, and proof-of-possession approaches like DPoP and mTLS — are enabling secure, context-driven interactions for AI agents.

✨Join us as we reimagine OAuth not just as a tool to protect users, but as a powerful enabler of trust and autonomy in AI-driven environments. 🔥

Presenter:
🎤 Kunal Sinha is a Software Architect at Okta, with extensive experience in IAM, authentication, and directory services. He has played a pivotal role in building and evolving core products like Okta Universal Directory, LDAP Interface, PAM, and Directories Integration.
Kunal’s recent work focuses on re-architecting Okta’s platform using event-driven architecture to enhance scalability and reduce operational overhead. Prior to Okta, he contributed to LDAP solutions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

LinkedIn Event
https://www.linkedin.com/events/7343835879397847041

Schedule
🕐 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm => Refreshments (Local craft beer🍺 and Pizza 🍕)
🕕 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm => Session
🕖 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm => Questions, networking, hangout! 🤝

Location
🏢 WeWork Office Space & Coworking, 10900 Stonelake Blvd Building 2, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78759
📍 Meeting room 2H on the second floor.

Parking
🅿️ Free parking on premises.

What to bring
✨ Curiosity, Kindness, and Willingness To Learn ✨

🎁 Special Giveaway:
We’ve got some awesome T-shirts to give away! 👕 Join us, learn something new, and take home some cool swag!