Use Cases
Every organization faces the same fundamental problem: authorization is fragmented across applications, and adding new partners, jurisdictions, or AI agents makes it worse. PBAC solves this with one policy plane that adapts to any domain — the same authorization model that governs a corporate workspace also governs cross-jurisdictional health data sharing or regulated financial services. What changes is the data, not the infrastructure.
Scenarios
| Scenario | The problem | How PBAC helps |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Post-M&A identity chaos, per-app authorization, no unified audit | One policy plane across business units and acquired companies |
| Healthcare | Cross-jurisdictional data sharing with different privacy rules per jurisdiction | Federated authorization with consent-as-obligation and full audit |
| Fintech | Regulatory mandates for delegated, consent-based access across institutions | Standards-based authorization with dynamic partner onboarding |
| AI Agents | Autonomous agents accessing internal systems with no auditable authorization model | Trust-tiered agent tokens with single-use issuance and per-call policy |
AI agents and MCP
The AI agents use case shows how PBAC governs autonomous software clients with the same policy model used for humans:
- Software statement claims carry agent identity (
agent_provider,agent_model) - OPA enforces trust tiers at token issuance — no code changes to add or demote a provider
- MCP servers are protected via real-time token introspection on every tool call
- JIT single-use tokens and reduced TTLs constrain agent access windows
- Agent-to-agent delegation via RFC 8693 token exchange
Next steps
- Quickstart — See the access model in action in 5 minutes
- The Business Case — Frame the cost of fragmented authorization
- Talk to us — Discuss your use case with the IDENTOS team