Descope

05/29/2026

In this month's Auth Thoughts, we cover:

💼 Hosted Admin Portal
🔒 Tenant-level user isolation
📚 Guides on building identity-aware AI agents

Read on for your regular roundup from the world of customer and agentic identity: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/admin-portal-tenant-user-isolation-other-descope-product-updates-goysc/?trackingId=B95cafvxSwidmYeGcVljCQ%3D%3D

05/27/2026

Descope is locked and loaded for AI Dev Summit!

Drop by Booth 211 to see how Descope helps teams create identity journeys for their customer apps, AI agents, and MCP servers.

05/27/2026

Is agent-to-agent just client-to-server in disguise?

Just one of many questions Rohit pondered in his session at the MCP Developers Summit. Other questions include "Should an agent also be an MCP server?" and "Why the heck would we even do that?"

Watch the rest of the session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMQCXe1zrWY

05/26/2026

3️⃣ Our third time at KuppingerCole Analysts EIC was a blast

Thank you to all the identity leaders and partners that dropped by the Descope booth to discuss the role of identity in digital transformation, B2B2X setups, and agentic AI deployments. See you next year!

05/21/2026

Introducing the Descope Admin Portal

Provide a centralized and hosted self-service experience to your users and tenant admins. Provide brand and role-aware delegated admin without spending developer time building custom tools.

Learn more: https://www.descope.com/blog/post/admin-portal

05/20/2026

SSO is an iceberg with tons of busywork under the surface

This busywork compounds in multi-tenant, B2B2X environments:

⚠️ Multiple IdPs per tenant
⚠️ Different auth, security, and UX requirements
⚠️ Need delegated admin at user and tenant level

For more insight into identity architectural best practices, watch the on-demand webinar with Descope and KuppingerCole Analysts : https://hello.descope.com/b2b2x-webinar

05/19/2026

Powering in-person experiences with Descope Flows

Customer identity often breaks down during in-person scenarios:

🔹 Self-service hotel check-ins
🔹 Syncing loyalty rewards during in-store checkout
🔹 Signing in to Smart TVs

Descope Flow templates using Device Code provide a seamless way to tackle the above scenarios.

✅ Frictionless: Scan a QR code, use methods like passkeys
✅ Personalized: Create different journeys per touchpoint
✅ Omnichannel: Reliably identify users across interactions

Learn more: https://www.descope.com/blog/post/descope-flows-omnichannel-retail-auth

05/18/2026

The MCP auth spec is deliberately minimal.

It defines what the authorization server needs to expose: endpoints, token format, PKCE requirements. But it says nothing about what should happen between the user clicking “authorize” and the token being issued.

Here are some thoughts on:
✅ The importance of an identity orchestration layer for MCP auth
✅ Common orchestration use cases
✅ How the Descope Agentic Identity Hub helps

Read more: https://www.descope.com/blog/post/descope-flows-mcp-orchestration

05/16/2026

What MCP clients can give to MCP servers

05/14/2026

🚪 Multi-tenant MCP gateways with identity built-in

If you're serving multiple enterprise customers through an MCP server, architectural decisions you make early on can make or break your implementation as it scales.

This tutorial builds a secure multi-tenant MCP gateway using Descope and Bifrost.

🔹 Descope: Identity management, token issuance, credential vault
🔹 Bifrost: JWT enforcement, request routing

Learn more:

Try descope for free: https://descope.plug.dev/U0AQVPbLearn how to build a secure multi-tenant MCP gatewa...