New OEM integration solves the cross-domain identity challenge — from unfederated Active Directory forests to agentic AI — with zero-knowledge, phishing-resistant authentication and full identity observability
Radiant Logic, the pioneer of Identity Data Fabric and leader in Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), announced an OEM agreement with Badge Inc., the privacy company enabling Identity without Secrets™. Under the agreement, Badge’s patented zero-knowledge authentication is embedded directly into the RadiantOne platform, enabling enterprises to unify authentication and authorization across unfederated identity domains — including complex Active Directory environments, cloud identity providers, and AI agent ecosystems.
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The Cross-Domain Identity Problem
Enterprises operating across multiple Active Directory forests, Kerberos realms, and cloud identity providers face one of the most persistent and expensive challenges in IT: enabling secure cross-domain access without rearchitecting their directory infrastructure. This problem intensifies during mergers and acquisitions, healthcare system consolidations, and government agency modernizations, where unfederated domains must coexist for months or years.
The emergence of AI agents compounds the challenge. Organizations deploying agentic AI have limited visibility into which agents exist across their environment, what permissions they hold, and how they authenticate across domain boundaries.
RadiantOne with Badge: A Platform-Level Solution
The RadiantOne platform now combines Radiant Logic’s identity data unification and observability capabilities with Badge’s zero-knowledge, device-independent authentication to solve these challenges end to end:
Identity Unification and Observability. RadiantOne aggregates and correlates identity data from directories, cloud platforms, databases, and AI systems into a single authoritative view. This provides security teams with real-time visibility into all identities — human, machine, and agent — along with continuous risk detection and governance across the full IAM ecosystem.
Agent Governance and Cryptographic Binding. Building on this unified view, Badge creates a cryptographic binding to each discovered agent, establishing verifiable identity and appropriately limiting the scope of what each agent can do. Together, this delivers runtime identity governance for AI — ensuring agents operate only within defined boundaries.
Zero-Knowledge Authentication Across Unfederated Domains. Badge’s patented on-demand key derivation eliminates stored secrets, passwords, and device-bound credentials. Users and agents enroll once and authenticate across any domain — including unfederated AD forests, Kerberos realms, and identity platforms such as Entra ID, CyberArk, Okta, and Ping — without requiring forest trusts or manual federation.
This is zero trust applied to the identity layer itself: no stored secrets, no implicit trust, continuous verification. By combining Radiant Logic’s identity unification with Badge’s passwordless, deviceless authentication, the partnership bridges a security ecosystem where every identity — human, machine, or agent — is discovered, verified, and governed end to end.
Cross-Domain Access Without Rearchitecting. The solution issues X.509 certificates that work across unfederated identity domains, enabling secure cross-domain access from day one of a merger, consolidation, or modernization initiative. Organizations integrate additional identity providers incrementally without disruption.
Executive Perspectives
“Our customers face a fundamental challenge: they need to unify identity across unfederated domains without rearchitecting their directories and now extending that same level of zero trust verification and governance to AI agents,” said Dr. John Pritchard, CEO, Radiant Logic. “By embedding Badge’s zero-knowledge authentication into RadiantOne, we give enterprises a single platform that solves cross-domain trust for both humans and agents — while accelerating M&A timelines and reducing identity risk.”
“Badge was built to eliminate secrets and make strong authentication universal,” said Dr. Tina Srivastava, Co-Founder, Badge Inc. “Embedding Badge inside RadiantOne means our technology is now available within the world’s most complex identity environments, enabling zero-knowledge MFA and cross-domain trust at enterprise scale.”
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