Alliance Formed in Support of Securing AI Agents

A cross-industry coalition has formed the “Blueprint Alliance” to advance a shared architecture for securing AI agents. Founding members include AWS, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Docker, Google Cloud, Lovable, Okta, Proofpoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Wiz, and Zscaler, which span a variety of industry sectors including identity, AI, data, applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other strategic industries interested in co-authoring an expanded blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise. Strategic advisors across industries, including GE Appliances and World Central Kitchen.

Founding Alliance members have aligned toward a shared set of principles for securing AI agents — treating every agent as a first-class identity, scoping access to the task rather than granting standing access, keeping delegation traceable, monitoring runtime behavior continuously, enabling containment that is instant and reversible, and ensuring governance adapts at the speed AI moves.

Guided by these principles, the Alliance evolved and expanded the blueprint for the secure agentic enterprise, first introduced in March, into an open, multi-vendor reference architecture. It provides organizations with a standardized way to address four core challenges: Where are my agents? What can they do? What are they doing? How do I respond?

Founding members are building and testing interoperability across open standards, including MCP, OCSF, SSF, and CAEP, helping ensure that a threat signal raised by one runtime monitor triggers real-time action across all connected control planes. They also intend to regularly publish joint interoperability results and reference integrations to serve as the connective tissue for a multi-vendor security ecosystem.

“The blueprint started because our customers needed a consistent architecture for securing agents, one that governs identity, access, and execution across the entire stack without shutting down the autonomy that makes agents useful,” said Steven Tamm, SVP of Ecosystem at Okta. “Getting there required founding members across the Blueprint Alliance to align on a shared approach rather than each vendor solving it alone.”

New Blueprint Alliance members will be added over time to further refine and evolve the blueprint reference architecture.

Channel Impact^®
As AI agents increasingly act on behalf of people across organizations, the industry needs a common approach to identity, governance and runtime protection.