Afero Joins UN Initiative to Build Trust in AI Agents
Afero will contribute to the new ITU Focus Group on Trust and Identity for Humans and Agentic AI
Afero, the enterprise-grade secure IoT Platform for embedded systems, today announced its participation in the newly launched Focus Group on Trust and Identity for Humans and Agentic AI, an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations special agency for digital technologies. First announced at the AI for Good Global Summit, the new Focus Group is a global standards initiative to develop frameworks for trusted digital identity and to ensure that the behavior of AI agents remains trustworthy and accountable throughout their lifecycle.
The Focus Group will report to ITU-T Study Group 17, the expert group for security standards, where Afero’s Chief Security Strategist and Head of International Standards, Bret Jordan, serves as Chair of Working Party 2. The Focus Group will develop common terminology, reference architectures for identity and trust, interoperability mechanisms for digital credentials, security criteria and benchmarks for the continuous assessment of AI agents, and a global standardization roadmap.
