Renowned identity leader to guide strategy and education on orchestration for Agentic AI identity management

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today named Eve Maler, a globally recognized identity expert and pioneer of identity standards, as Agentic Identity Program Ambassador. In this role, Eve will provide education and guidance for identity and security professionals confronting the new risks, threats, and governance challenges created by Agentic AI.

“Eve’s expertise and role in creating the very standards that underpin digital identity make her the perfect voice to help Strata educate organizations on how to manage Agentic AI identity risks,” said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity. “Her ability to connect the dots between Agentic AI security and real-world use cases will help our customers adopt AI responsibly and with the right guardrails.”

Identity Expert and Standards Pioneer

Eve Maler is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in digital identity:

• She co-authored the foundational standards, including SAML, XML, and User-Managed Access (UMA), that secure modern digital ecosystems
• Served as CTO at ForgeRock, leading innovation and strategy
• Was an analyst at Forrester, where she advised global enterprises on IAM, authentication, and API security
• Through her work at Venn Factory and across the identity community, she has been a trusted advisor on digital identity, consent, and governance

Agentic AI introduces a new class of identity management challenges that span ensuring trust in autonomous machine agents, controlling access across hybrid environments, and governing compliance in real time. As Agentic Identity Program Ambassador, Eve will create educational content, deliver workshops, and provide actionable insights to help members of Strata’s Identity Orchestration of AI Agents early access program strengthen governance and resilience.

“Agentic AI doesn’t just change the tools we use, it changes the very actors in our digital ecosystems,” said Eve Maler. “These new agents can act, decide, and even collaborate on our behalf. I’m working with Strata to help identity professionals separate the signal from the noise, understand how to keep trust at the center, and establish governance strategies that strengthen resilience, compliance, and long-term confidence in AI adoption.”

To shape the future of AI identity, join the Strata Identity Orchestration for AI Agents early access program: https://www.strata.io/agentic/

About Strata Identity

Strata Identity enables organizations to orchestrate and modernize identity without disrupting existing infrastructure while maintaining a frictionless user experience. By decoupling identity from applications, Strata's Maverics platform unifies SSO, can rationalize redundant IDPs, and ensures continuous access during outages via IDP failover. It enables organizations to extend zero-trust controls across human, machine, and autonomous AI identities.

Led by CEO Eric Olden, co-author of the SAML standard, Strata also created the Identity Query Language (IDQL) and open-source Hexa project to help standardize multi-cloud identity management. Learn more at Strata.io and follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

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Agentic AI introduces a new class of identity challenges. Eve will help organizations separate the signal from the noise, understand how to keep trust at the center, and establish strategies that strengthen resilience, compliance, and confidence in AI.