<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Identity Architecture Blog — Imthiaz Ahmed</title><description>Perspectives on identity, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and enterprise architecture.</description><link>https://blog.imthi.me/</link><item><title>Building a Privacy-First AI Homelab for Secure Agentic Automation</title><link>https://blog.imthi.me/articles/privacy-first-ai-homelab/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.imthi.me/articles/privacy-first-ai-homelab/</guid><description>A small local AI environment can make experimentation more private and controllable when identity, network and data boundaries are designed first.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Artificial Intelligence</category><category>Local AI</category><category>Homelab</category><category>AI Agents</category><category>Privacy</category><category>Cybersecurity</category><author>Imthiaz Ahmed</author></item><item><title>Passkeys Solve Authentication — Not Identity Governance</title><link>https://blog.imthi.me/articles/passkeys-and-identity-governance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.imthi.me/articles/passkeys-and-identity-governance/</guid><description>Passkeys can strengthen sign-in, but organisations still need lifecycle, entitlement and accountability controls around every identity.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Identity</category><category>Passwordless</category><category>Passkeys</category><category>Identity Governance</category><category>Zero Trust</category><author>Imthiaz Ahmed</author></item><item><title>Why AI Agents Need an Identity Before They Need More Intelligence</title><link>https://blog.imthi.me/articles/why-ai-agents-need-an-identity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.imthi.me/articles/why-ai-agents-need-an-identity/</guid><description>Autonomous agents need explicit identity, bounded authority and accountable access before organisations expand what those agents can do.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Identity</category><category>Artificial Intelligence</category><category>AI Agents</category><category>Machine Identity</category><category>Security Architecture</category><author>Imthiaz Ahmed</author></item></channel></rss>