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Digital onboarding is often treated as an HR or client success process. It should also be treated as a security control. Every new employee, contractor, vendor, or client creates access decisions. They may need accounts, documents, systems, payment portals, shared folders, communication tools, or internal workflows. If that access is handled manually, mistakes happen.

There's a version of this conversation that sounds alarmist, and that's not what this is. The unfortunate thing is that most people don't think about this until something goes wrong. A suspicious charge on a card, a login alert from a device they don't recognize, an email that knows a little too much. By the point that question isn't hypothetical anymore. But it's worth thinking about before that happens, because the answer is more complicated than a simple yes or no.

Agency margins are a math problem nobody wants to talk about openly. You win a client. You scope the work. You staff it. Then somewhere between the kickoff call and the first deliverable, hours start disappearing into tasks that weren't in the scope - or were, but not at the volume they actually take. Brief prep. Report assembly. Keyword research before the SEO strategy can begin. Social drafts that follow a template so consistent a junior could do it, except the junior is already maxed out.

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Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC also unveils the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification - slated for IETF submission.