Badal Bhushan is a Distinguished Engineer specializing in enterprise Identity and Access Management and cybersecurity architecture, with more than two decades of experience designing large-scale identity, authentication, Zero Trust, privileged access, workload identity, and authorization platforms. His current research and industry work focus on identity, delegation, token, and authorization architectures for autonomous AI agents and MCP ecosystems. He has published and presented work on agentic AI authentication and authorization, including IEEE-recognized research.