Identity and access

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Azure DevOps opens a Service Connection off-ramp from PATs and build session tokens

A preview from Microsoft DevOps lets Azure Pipelines authenticate against Azure DevOps with an Entra-backed Service Connection instead of a Personal Access Token or Build Session token. The coverage is scoped: repo resources, YAML template checkouts, NuGetAuthenticate, InvokeRESTAPI and the AzureCLI task.

Aug 15, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Identity and access

Vercel buys Better Auth on the pitch that agents need their own login

Vercel has acquired Better Auth, framed as a bet that AI agents opening PRs, reviewing code and creating deployments should hold first-class identity of their own. For CI/CD platforms, that reopens the question of what the merge and deploy gates are actually verifying.

Jul 8, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Identity and access

Boundary 1.0 adds RDP session recording, previews AI-agent access controls

HashiCorp shipped Boundary 1.0 with RDP session recording and a preview of work aimed at securing AI-agent access. For teams that route Windows targets through the proxy, session recording lands as an audit point that used to live in ad-hoc tooling.

Jul 7, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Identity and access

Anthropic swaps per-developer Claude Code secrets for an OIDC gateway

Anthropic shipped a self-hosted Claude apps gateway that runs Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud without per-developer cloud credentials, federating identity through Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or any standards-compliant OIDC provider.

Jul 5, 2026 · Tomás Vega