As the notion of the AI agent begins to take hold, and more tasks will be completed without a human involved, it is going to require a new kind of aut

Anon is building an automated authentication layer for the GenAI age

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2024-05-14 12:30:05

As the notion of the AI agent begins to take hold, and more tasks will be completed without a human involved, it is going to require a new kind of authentication to make sure only agents with the proper approval can access particular resources. Anon, an early-stage startup, is helping developers add automated authentication in a safe and secure way.

The founders came up with the idea for this company out of necessity. Their first idea was actually building an AI agent, but CEO Daniel Mason says they quickly came up against a problem around authentication — simply put, how to enter a username and password automatically and safely. “We kept running into this hard edge of customers wanting us to do X, but we couldn’t do X unless we had this delegated authentication system,” Mason told TechCrunch.

He began asking around about how other AI startups were handling authentication, and found there weren’t really any good answers. “In fact, a lot of the solutions, people that were using, were actually quite a bit less secure. They were mostly inheriting authentication credentials from a user’s local machine or browser-based permissions,” he said.