Humans have had identity solutions for years. For example, passwords, two-factor auth, and SSO. But what about services? They need identity too, especially now, with AI agents in the mix.

In this 🌩️Thunder episode, Henry Avetisyan, Software Engineer at Yahoo and lead maintainer of Athenz, explains how Athenz issues every workload a short-lived certificate as its identity, valid for mere hours, and how that cert gets refreshed automatically.

When something is compromised, you stop renewing. The certificate expires on its own.

Give it a watch! youtu.be/9XS0B8n18…

Henry Avetisyan (in grayscale) on the left and Whitney Lee on the right, both smiling, with a filled lightboard behind them showing handwritten notes and diagrams. Large yellow text in the center reads "Athenz" with "Giving Services an Identity" below it. The 🌩️Thunder logo appears in the top left. Text at the bottom reads "with Henry Avetisyan."