FIDO2 / WebAuthn
W3C & FIDO Alliance
Passkey sign-in; credentials bound to the site that created them.
OpenID Connect
OpenID Foundation
Modern OAuth-based single sign-on for web and mobile apps.
SAML 2.0
OASIS Standard
Enterprise SSO for the apps your customers already federate with.
SCIM 2.0
IETF RFC 7643 / 7644
Inbound directory sync and outbound provisioning.
OAuth 2.0 + PKCE
IETF RFC 6749 / 7636
Authorization code flow with proof-key for code exchange.
OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization
IETF RFC 8628
Device flow for CLIs and input-constrained apps.
OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection & Revocation
IETF RFC 7662 / 7009
Apps check a token is still live, and revoke it the moment access ends.
OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange & JWT Bearer Grant
IETF RFC 8693 / 7523
Tokens exchanged across trust domains, and signed assertions redeemed for access, for AI agents and Apple Platform SSO.
Identity Assertion Authorization Grant (ID-JAG)
IETF OAuth working group Internet-Draft
Enterprise-managed access for MCP servers and AI agents, under the organization's policy. Implemented while the draft is in progress.
MCP authorization
Model Context Protocol specification
How AI clients discover, register with and get approval for MCP servers, including enterprise-managed authorization.
OAuth 2.0 DPoP
IETF RFC 9449
Tokens bound to a key the client holds, so a copied token is useless to anyone else.
Protected Resource Metadata & Resource Indicators
IETF RFC 9728 / 8707
MCP servers announce how to reach them, and every token names the one server it is for.
Authorization Server Metadata & OpenID Connect Discovery
IETF RFC 8414 · OpenID Foundation
Apps configure themselves from one published document instead of hand-copied settings.
Dynamic Client Registration & Client ID Metadata Documents
IETF RFC 7591 / 7592 + Internet-Draft
AI clients and apps register themselves, or identify themselves by a URL they control.
Client authentication with signed keys
IETF RFC 7523 (private_key_jwt)
Applications prove who they are with a key they hold, instead of a shared client secret.
OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout
OpenID Foundation
Signing out in one place ends the session in every app that listens.
Shared Signals Framework & CAEP
OpenID Foundation
Real-time security events — revoked sessions, changed credentials — shared with the apps that act on them.
OpenID for Verifiable Credentials, SD-JWT VC & mdoc
OpenID Foundation · IETF Internet-Draft · ISO/IEC 18013-5
Issue and verify credentials your customers carry in their own wallets.
Privacy Pass
IETF RFC 9576–9578
HumanProof: prove a visitor is a person with a single-use token that can't be linked back to them.
ACME with device attestation
IETF RFC 8555 + draft
Device certificates issued only to hardware that proves what it is.
OMA-DM & MS-MDE2
Open Mobile Alliance · Microsoft Open Specifications
Windows enrollment and device management through Windows' built-in management client.
CEF, LEEF, OCSF v1.3
ArcSight · IBM QRadar · OCSF Project
Audit export formats — the same shapes your SOC and auditor already read.