Discover, govern, protect: The three pillars of secure AI innovation

The enterprise is moving at breakneck speed from simple conversational AI to autonomous action. Today’s AI agents aren't just summarizing text—they are executing complex workflows, accessing sensitive databases, invoking APIs, and moving across corporate networks without direct human intervention.

This rapid expansion brings immense productivity gains, but it also creates a massive security blind spot. Legacy identity tools built for human employees simply cannot govern autonomous, machine-speed actors.

What the data tells us about AI risk

According to our 2026 Report: The Year of the AI Agent, the rush to adopt autonomous agents has far outpaced the ability to govern them:

• Massive adoption scale: 91% of enterprise organizations are actively deploying or evaluating AI agents.
• Widespread access to sensitive data: 97% of deployed agents have access to confidential data, including customer records, HR files, and financial systems.
• Critical visibility gaps: Only 30% of security teams have complete, real-time visibility into their agentic workforce, leaving the rest blind to unsanctioned "shadow AI."
• Weak privilege controls: A mere 11% of companies have fully implemented least-privilege access for AI agents.
• Low confidence: Unsurprisingly, only 21% of security leaders feel highly confident in their ability to manage AI risk.

When an AI agent can spin up, request elevated credentials, execute tasks, and shut down in a matter of seconds, traditional quarterly access reviews and human-focused MFA offer zero protection.

Announcing SailPoint Agentic Fabric: Centralized control for AI identities

To manage this explosive growth, SailPoint is announcing the general availability of SailPoint Agentic Fabric—available both as a standalone offering and as a core capability within the unified SailPoint Identity Security solution.

Acting as a single, centralized control plane, Agentic Fabric provides the essential foundation to discover, govern, and protect automated enterprise environments:

• Discover: Peer deep into endpoints, browser environments, and SaaS applications using lightweight sensors—SailPoint Endpoint Agent Security (SEAS) and SailPoint Browser Agent Security (SBAS). Agentic Fabric automatically exposes hidden AI agents, ephemeral credentials, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that traditional tools miss. It maps a dynamic identity graph linking every agent to its human owner, entitlements, and sensitive data access paths.
• Govern: Treat AI agents as first-class identities with enterprise-grade governance. Enforce immutable birth-right human ownership from creation to retirement so every agent action maintains a clear chain of custody. Automate provisioning, de-provisioning, and just-in-time access to eliminate standing privileges, while generating audit-ready activity trails and automated certification campaigns.
• Protect: Wrap non-human identities in active safeguards built for real-time threat response. Inline prompt security automatically redacts sensitive PII before it reaches external LLMs, while continuous behavioral monitoring detects anomalies instantly. If an agent goes rogue or attempts unauthorized actions, a centralized kill-switch immediately revokes permissions or disables the identity, while sharing governance-grade context directly with SOC teams.

Real capabilities vs. industry hype

While other vendors spend time filling whitepapers with promises and pitching future roadmaps for AI security, SailPoint is delivering real, production-grade capabilities today. Managing autonomous identities isn't a theoretical challenge for the distant future—it is an operational reality right now. Organizations need proven software that can inspect endpoint processes, enforce least privilege, and stop data exfiltration at machine speed.

Ready to see how it works in action? Request a demo to see SailPoint Agentic Fabric live and learn how easily you can bring your AI workforce under unified identity control.

Take control of your AI footprint today

The rise of the agentic workforce is inevitable, but losing control of your enterprise data and identities doesn't have to be. By treating AI agents as first-class identities within a unified identity security plane, enterprises can innovate with confidence.

Click here to explore the SailPoint Agentic Fabric, or dive deeper into the state of autonomous enterprise security by reading the full 2026 Report: The Year of the AI Agent.