Badal Bhushan is an identity and cybersecurity technologist and independent researcher with more than two decades of experience in identity architecture, authentication, authorization, Zero Trust, and distributed security systems. His current research focuses on identity and authorization for autonomous AI agents, delegated authority, non-human identities, workload identity, OAuth-based security architectures, MCP security, and fine-grained runtime authorization. He is a CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CEH, and PMP, and is an author, reviewer, technical judge, and conference speaker on emerging identity and AI-security topics.