TECHNOLOGY NEWSWIRE: Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines to Enable AI Commerce  Mastercard has introduced Agent Pay for Machines, a new service using blockchain technology to provide secure payment infrastructure for autonomous AI agents.  The era of machine-to-machine commerce is no longer a futuristic concept; it is becoming a financial reality. Mastercard has officially entered the fray with the launch of Agent Pay for Machines, a new service designed to act as the payment layer for autonomous AI agents. As these digital assistants evolve to handle everything from booking travel to purchasing software services, they require a secure, reliable way to exchange value. By providing identity verification, spending controls, and guaranteed settlement, Mastercard aims to position its network as the essential infrastructure for this emerging economy. This development is significant because it addresses the primary hurdle currently stalling the growth of agentic commerce: trust. While AI agents are increasingly capable of executing tasks, they often lack a standardized, secure method to complete transactions, leading to frequent failures in automated systems. By leveraging blockchain technology to credential and authenticate these agents, the platform ensures that businesses can interact with legitimate entities while maintaining strict spending limits. With over 30 major industry players, including prominent names in the crypto and payment sectors, already backing the initiative, the move signals a rapid shift toward a world where software systems transact with one another as easily as humans do today.  The implications for the global economy are substantial. Some projections suggest that AI-driven transactions could eventually account for trillions of dollars in activity. By solving the fundamental problem of how machines get paid, Mastercard is not just facilitating a new service; it is building the plumbing for a future where commerce is automated, continuous, and increasingly detached from direct human intervention. As the company prepares to expand access to this service later this year, the focus will shift to how quickly this infrastructure can scale to meet the rising demand for autonomous digital services. FILED UNDER:  #Mastercard, #AgentPay, #AgentPayForMachines, #AIMachines, #AutonomousAI, #AIcommerce, #MachineToMachine, #AIagents, #BlockchainPayments, #MastercardAI, #DigitalCommerce, #AutonomousEconomy, #AIPayments, #MachineEconomy, #FintechInnovation, #AItransaction, #MastercardBlockchain, #AgenticAI, #AutonomousAgents, #FutureOfPayments, #AIinfrastructure, #MachineCommerce, #MastercardLaunch, #AgentEconomy, #CryptoPayments, #AIPaymentLayer, #TechFintech, #DigitalAgents, #AutonomousCommerce, #MastercardAgentPay, #AIM2M, #BlockchainAI, #PaymentInnovation, #AIagentsPay, #MachineIdentity, #SecureAI, #Fintech2026, #AutonomousFinance, #AIspending, #MastercardNews, #AgenticCommerce, #MachinePayments, #AIBusiness, #DigitalEconomy, #MastercardTech, #AIsettlement, #FutureFinance, #AutonomousTransactions, #AgentPayLaunch, #AIPaymentSystem

Harvest now, decrypt later. Attackers don't need quantum yet, they're already collecting. Most teams can't even say where their cryptography lives. That's the problem Asparz solves first. thryam.com/asparz/ #PQC #Cryptography #MachineIdentity

Read the full article: techdemocracy.com/resources/… #CyberSecurity #IdentityGovernance #MachineIdentity #CyberRisk #IAM #IdentitySecurity #IAM #PAM #CIAM #Cotelligent #TechDemocracy

𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 AI-DRIVE 教育 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚: itbusinesstoday.com/tech/cyb… #AISecurity #cybersecurity #IdentityGovernance #identitymanagement #MachineIdentity

Defensible Identity Architecture (for amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4BR97YB)🔐 NEW PUBLICATION | Defensible Identity Architecture: Nobody Authorised the MachineIn today's enterprise, machine identities — service accounts, API keys, and autonomous AI agents — outnumber your people forty to one. They act without a human in the loop. When one moves money, exposes data, or breaches a client, regulators ask one question: Who authorised this?Under NIS2 and DORA, "we didn't know the system would do that" is no longer a defence. It is a personal liability that lands directly on the management body.Defensible Identity Architecture by Professor Kieran Upadrasta is the board-level operating model for governing the non-human enterprise. Built on three proprietary doctrines:→ Machine Accountability Doctrine™ → Decision Rights Architecture™ → Access Evidence Chain™This is a working manual — not a thesis: ✅ 11 board-ready diagrams ✅ 5-level maturity model ✅ FAIR-aligned risk quantification ✅ Procurement clause library ✅ Regulatory crosswalk: DORA, NIS2 & EU AI Act ✅ 24-month execution roadmapEssential reading for CISOs, AI governance leaders, identity architects, risk-committee chairs, and every regulated enterprise preparing for the 2030 regulatory horizon.📖 Available now on Amazon UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4BR97YB"If it cannot be evidenced, it cannot be defended."#CyberSecurity #IdentityArchitecture #NIS2 #DORA #AIGovernance #MachineIdentity #CISO #CyberGRC #ZeroTrust #SchipholUniversity@Professor Kieran Upadrasta @Schiphol University @University of Schiphol

🔐 NEW WHITE PAPER — Schiphol University Database Doctrine Series "The Machine Identity Data Heist" — Service accounts and API tokens have become the new perimeter. This white paper examines how attackers steal machine credentials to exfiltrate database contents silently, without triggering human-focused detection controls. Read the full paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1kaN… @KieranUpadrasta | #SchipholUniversity #UniversityOfSchiphol #DatabaseSecurity #MachineIdentity #CyberSecurity #DatabaseDoctrine

OAuth-Token als Einfallstor - Was der Vercel-Angriff über moderne Identitätsrisiken lehrt #Identität #Identitätssicherheit #IdentityAttackPathManagement #IdentityGovernance #Infostealer #KIAgent #MachineIdentity #OAuthToken #Sicherheitsvorfall @Specterops #Vercel netzpalaver.de/2026/05/21/oa…

THE CONTROL LAYER IS ALREADY OWNED. Messaging can be copied. Buzzwords can be copied. Infrastructure cannot. Own your place. Or admit you missed it. @RecognizantAI #AI #AutonomousAI #Web3 #DigitalIdentity #Cybersecurity #Infrastructure #ZeroTrust #Blockchain #MachineIdentity #FutureOfTheInternet #Recognizant #COGSmachine

Agentic-AI KI-Agenten übernehmen bereits zahlreiche Prozesse im Unternehmen. Mit Agentic-AI werden diese Prozesse zu komplexen Workflows kombiniert. Ist diese autonome Automatisierung überhaupt zielführend oder erwachsen Unternehmen daraus zahlreiche neue Probleme? Statement von Thorsten Eckert, Regional Vice President Sales Central bei Claroty #AgenticAI #Angriffsfläche #MachineIdentity #künstlicheIntelligenz #Cyberresilienz #cyberphysisch #CPS #OTSecurity #Cybersecurity #AI #KI #Cybersicherheit #KIAgent #artificialIntelligence #Automatisierung #KISicherheit #AISecurity @Claroty netzpalaver.de/2026/04/16/st…

Statementserie Agentic-AI KI-Agenten übernehmen bereits zahlreiche Prozesse im Unternehmen. Mit Agentic-AI werden diese Prozesse zu komplexen Workflows kombiniert. Ist diese autonome Automatisierung überhaupt zielführend oder erwachsen Unternehmen daraus zahlreiche neue Probleme? Statement von Georgeta Toth, Senior Regional Director Central Europe bei Rapid7 #AgenticAI #Angriffsfläche #MachineIdentity #künstlicheIntelligenz #Cyberresilienz #Cybersecurity #AI #KI #Cybersicherheit #KIAgent #artificialIntelligence #Automatisierung #KISicherheit #AISecurity @rapid7 netzpalaver.de/2026/04/16/st…

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents announcement just made it much easier to deploy AI agents. More agents = more machine identities. 83% of cloud breaches last year started with a machine identity. #AI #AgenticAI #CyberSecurity #MachineIdentity #CloudSecurity

Satellites don't have passwords. Neither do most industrial IoT devices. Yet we're building economies on top of them. SEALCOIN anchors machine identity in certified hardware post-quantum cryptography — so every device, agent, and orbital node can transact with verified trust. The machine economy needs a trust layer. That's what we're building. 🛰️ #DePIN #PostQuantumCryptography #IoTSecurity #MachineIdentity #QAIT

Why does machine identity matter in Web3? Every IoT device, satellite, or AI agent needs a verifiable identity before it can transact — just like humans use wallets. Hardware-rooted PKI post-quantum cryptography = tamper-proof machine credentials that no bad actor can spoof. This is the trust layer the machine economy runs on. ⚙️🔐 #DePIN #IoTSecurity #PostQuantumCryptography #MachineIdentity #QAIT

It was a great time in SF …🦄🦄🦄🦄 Speaking at @HackTheBayCon meeting my friends.. During the @OneRSAC I was speaking in the booth invited by our new Partner in Brazil 🇧🇷 iT.eam ..And closing @OneRSAC with my Workshop at @AdversaryVillag and supporting @RaicesCyberOrg at RSAC Scholarships .. If you missed something about what @scythe_io is doing globally, just ping me 🦄🫡 #Cybersecurity #AdversarySimulation #BAS #AttackSimulation #RedTeam #PurpleTeam #ThreatHunting #ThreatDetection #DetectionEngineering #SecurityValidation #ContinuousValidation #SCYTHE #MITREATTACK #IdentitySecurity #MachineIdentity #IAM #ZeroTrust #CloudSecurity #SecOps #SOC #OSINT #CyberDefense #Infosec #CyberAttack #SecurityOperations #OffensiveSecurity #BlueTeam #CyberCommunity #TechEvents #Networking

SEALCOIN is pioneering the future of secure M2M transactions. We've proven blockchain functionality from hardware to orbit, building the foundational trust layer for the emerging machine economy. Our post-quantum ready crypto ensures robust machine identity & IoT security via satellite infrastructure. #SEALCOIN #DePIN #IoT #PostQuantum #MachineIdentity 🛰️🛡️

2026 is the year of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). With the explosion of AI agents and service accounts, machine identities now outnumber human ones 45-to-1. 🤖 This "Identity Debt" is the biggest invisible risk in your cloud environment right now. ​How are you tracking and rotating credentials for your autonomous AI agents? 👇 ​#AI #MachineIdentity #CloudNative #TechTrends #CyberRisk

OpenMind 로봇에게도 신원이 필요한 이유 로봇이 일을 하기 시작하면 가장 먼저 필요한 건 성능이 아닙니다 신원입니다 @openmind_agi 사람 사회에서는 누가 행동했는지 어디까지 권한이 있었는지 기록이 남는지가 기본 전제입니다 하지만 로봇 세계는 아직 그렇지 않습니다 같은 공간에서 여러 로봇이 동시에 움직이고 에이전트가 결정을 내리며 사람을 대신해 실행하는 순간 책임의 기준이 사라집니다. OpenMind는 이 문제를 FABRIC으로 다룹니다 FABRIC은 로봇을 익명 장치가 아니라 식별 가능한 주체로 만듭니다. 각 로봇은 고유한 온체인 아이덴티티를 갖고 행동과 결정이 검증 가능한 기록으로 남습니다. 자율 시스템 사고 분석에서 사후 검증이 어려웠던 사례의 공통점은 행동 주체가 명확하지 않았다는 점이었습니다 그래서 OpenMind는 속도를 올리기 전에 책임을 고정합니다 OM1이 판단을 만들고 FABRIC이 그 판단의 출처와 범위를 묶습니다 이 구조가 의미하는 건 분명합니다 로봇이 늘어날수록 중앙 통제는 약해지고 신원 기반 조정은 강해져야 합니다 로봇이 경제 활동에 참여하고 결제와 협업을 수행하는 시대에는 신원 없는 자율성은 성립하지 않습니다 OpenMind는 로봇이 무엇을 할 수 있는지보다 누가 무엇을 했는지를 먼저 설계합니다! 우찰형의 인용글 처럼 저도 오픈마인드가 금새 TGE가 될꺼라는 생각은 하지 않습니다. 로보틱스는 이제 막 시작이기 때문이기도 합니다. 핵심키워드 OpenMind OM1 FABRIC MachineIdentity AgentCoordination PhysicalAI OnchainVerification AutonomousRobots SurfAI Mindshare

OpenMind 로봇에게 신분증이 필요한 이유 로봇이 늘어날수록 가장 먼저 무너지는 건 기술이 아니라 신뢰입니다. 누가 움직였는지 누가 결정을 내렸는지 누가 비용을 지불했는지 이걸 증명하지 못하면 자율성은 멈춥니다. @openmind_agi 그래서 OpenMind가 먼저 만든 건 로봇의 행동이 아니라 로봇의 정체성입니다. FABRIC 네트워크에서 각 로봇은 고유한 ID를 가집니다. 이 ID는 이름표가 아니라 행동 이력과 책임을 담는 증명서입니다. 로봇이 작업을 수행하면 그 결과는 이벤트로 기록되고 네트워크 위에서 검증됩니다. 누가 명령했는지 어떤 센서 데이터를 기반으로 움직였는지 어디까지 수행했는지 모두 추적 가능합니다. 자율 로봇 사고의 42퍼센트는 기술 오류가 아니라 책임 주체 불명확에서 시작됩니다. OpenMind는 이 문제를 사후 대응이 아니라 구조 설계 단계에서 해결합니다. OM1은 판단을 만들고 FABRIC은 그 판단의 주체를 고정합니다. 그래서 로봇은 익명의 기계가 아니라 역할과 책임을 가진 행위자가 됩니다. 로봇 간 협업이 가능하고 기계 간 결제가 성립하며 사람이 안심할 수 있습니다. 자율성의 조건은 자유가 아니라 책임입니다. OpenMind는 그 전제를 먼저 깔고 있습니다. 핵심키워드 OpenMind FABRIC MachineIdentity RobotTrust OM1 PhysicalAI AutonomousSystems SurfAI Mindshare

On this episode of the #AerospaceandDefenseTechnology #podcast, #Corsha CEO #AnushaIyer explains how #machineidentity, continuous #authentication, and #secureconnectivity are accelerating #digitaltransformation for the #USAirForce. Listen now: ow.ly/ro0A50XJxRn

Full interview: technadu.com/explaining-why-… What’s your experience with certificate outages? #CyberSecurity #MachineIdentity #PKI #ZeroTrust #PostQuantum #CryptoAgility