Advancing Machine to Machine Workflows with the SPIFFE Identity Provider - Andrew Block & Maia Iyer

Presenters Andrew Block Maia Iyer Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 Advancing Machine-to-Machine Workflows with SPIFFE Identity Provider 🚀 In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, securing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is paramount. As applications become more distributed and intelligent, traditional security models struggle to keep pace. This is where the SPIFFE Identity Provider steps in, offering a robust solution for establishing workload identities and enabling zero-trust architectures. Join Andrew Block, a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat and Keycloak user, and Maia Iyer from IBM Research, as they dive deep into how SPIFFE, in conjunction with Keycloak, revolutionizes M2M security. ...

April 13, 2026 · 5 min

Who Let the Agents Out? Securing AI Workflows the Right Way - Mariusz Sabath & Maia Iyer

Presenters Mariusz Sabath Maia Iyer Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Agent Security Unleashed: Building Trustworthy AI with a Zero Trust Approach 🚀 The modern developer’s life is a juggling act. Between managing code on GitHub, collaborating on Slack, and countless other tools, the quest for efficiency is constant. Enter agentic applications – the promise of automating those repetitive tasks and offering a single, powerful interface to control your entire digital ecosystem. Sounds amazing, right? While setting up local agents with API keys is relatively straightforward, taking these intelligent assistants to the cloud unlocks a whole new world of security challenges. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min