Last week was the loudest week for agent identity since the category had a name. April 30. Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire Portkey , the AI Gateway. Portkey routes trillions of agent tokens per month for enterprises that need a single chokepoint for outbound LLM traffic. Price not disclosed by Palo Alto; the Economic Times put it at $120-140M . May 4. Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security for ~$400M ( Calcalist ). Astrix runs the NHI category: discovery, governance, and lifecycle for API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and the agents that hold them. It will land inside Cisco Identity Intelligence and Duo. May 4. Proof joined the FIDO Alliance and announced Know Your Agent . The model binds a NIST IAL2 verified human to the agent that acts on their behalf, cryptographically, at the moment of authorization. May 1 to 2. CISA, NSA, ASD ACSC, CCCS, NCSC (NZ), and NCSC (UK), every Five Eyes agency at once, published Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services .…