Take control of every AI agent with SailPoint Agent Identity Security

Every company has employees you know: the ones HR onboarded, IT provisioned, and managers trained. But now a new kind of worker is showing up—one you didn’t hire, never vetted, and may not even realize is on the team. AI agents act like shadow teammates: always on, always connected, and often granted access to critical systems and sensitive data. Without proper governance, these invisible employees operate outside the usual checks and balances, accessing data without human oversight, creating risks no security leader can ignore.

Securing AI agents isn’t about slowing down innovation. It’s about making sure they don’t become liabilities. Left unchecked, they can accumulate excessive permissions, impersonate users, or unintentionally expose sensitive data. By treating AI agents as identities that require visibility, ownership, and governance, organizations can unlock their potential with confidence.

AI agents are no longer futuristic: they’re already reshaping work by automating tasks and even driving business decisions. But their speed, autonomy, and access privileges introduce serious security and compliance challenges. Without oversight, these digital workers can act in ways no one anticipated—amplifying risk at scale as adoption accelerates.

The growing governance gap
The challenges surrounding AI agent governance are becoming increasingly clear. A recent SailPoint survey revealed that 96% of technology professionals identify AI agents as a growing security threat. This concern is well-founded, as many organizations lack the tools and processes necessary to effectively manage AI agent identities and access.

Without proper governance, AI agents can:

• Autonomously access sensitive information inappropriately, leading to data leaks.
• Access unauthorized systems or be tricked into revealing credentials.
• Violate regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, resulting in fines and legal actions.
• Act as autonomous "digital insiders" with broad access, posing insider threats if unmonitored.
• Inappropriately escalate user permissions, granting excessive access to human users.

These risks are not merely theoretical. 80% of technology leaders say their agents have taken unintended actions, like accessing or sharing the wrong data. As AI agents become more prevalent in everyday business decisions (predicted to make 15% of them by 2028), the need for robust governance becomes paramount.

Introducing SailPoint Agent Identity Security: Purpose-built security for AI agents
To address these challenges, SailPoint is committed to securing AI via Agent Identity Security (AIS), a comprehensive solution designed to govern the full lifecycle of AI agents within the non-human identity space. Built on SailPoint Atlas and integrated with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and Data Access Security, AIS extends the rigorous visibility, accountability, and control you rely on for people and machines to AI agents.

Agent Identity Security empowers organizations to safely unlock AI's potential while maintaining control and compliance. By enabling organizations to discover, secure, and govern agents within a unified platform, Agent Identity Security ensures your business can scale AI confidently and securely.

Key features and capabilities
Agent Identity Security delivers comprehensive governance and security for AI agents, enabling organizations to gain visibility, establish ownership, govern the agents’ tools, and manage user authorizations across diverse AI agent deployments.

Key features and capabilities of Agent Identity Security include:

• AI agent aggregation and identity creation: Directly connect to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and other environments to automatically onboard AI agents into Agent Identity Security. Each agent is registered with a unique identity enriched with full business and access context, enabling rapid governance and security from day one.
• Ownership and succession planning: Assign one or multiple human owners to every agent to ensure accountability. Establish structured succession planning so oversight continues seamlessly, even as roles change.
• Tool governance: Govern AI agents' service accounts from creation through retirement, ensuring consistent policies across their entire lifecycle. For example, an AI-powered HR chatbot in Microsoft Teams uses service accounts to connect to systems like Workday or ServiceNow, giving it access to sensitive employee data. Without proper tool governance, the accounts that the AI agent utilizes could become risks or targets for attackers.
• Certification and review: Easily review AI agents' access on a recurring basis and revoke inappropriate permissions as needed to reduce risk. Extend oversight further by detecting when human identities gain new entitlements or data access through AI agents, giving you full visibility into both direct and indirect access pathways.
• Audit and traceability: Maintain a full access history and certification trail for every AI agent. Simplify investigations, support compliance requirements, and reduce risk by enabling transparent accountability across agent actions.
• Over-permission reporting: Utilize the AIS over-permission report, powered by Data Access Security (DAS), to identify when users gain unauthorized access to sensitive data through AI agents or service accounts. This report enables prompt investigation by highlighting instances where AI agents grant access beyond a user's intended permissions.
• Unified governance: Govern human, non-employee, machine, and AI agent identities within one unified experience. This enables consistent policy enforcement, streamlined certifications, and allows for complete lifecycle control through a single governance platform.

Benefits of SailPoint Agent Identity Security
By implementing Agent Identity Security, organizations can realize a number of key benefits:

• Centralized oversight of AI agents with full business and access context, eliminating blind spots.
• Automatic registration of agents from AWS, Azure, GCP, and beyond with the context needed for governance.
• Enable accountability by assigning clear ownership to every AI agent, with built-in succession planning to keep oversight intact when owners change.
• Simplified compliance with audit and certification trails to reduce risk exposure.
• Unified governance by managing AI agents on the same identity security platform as employees, machines, and third parties.

Take control of your AI agents today
The rise of AI agents presents both tremendous opportunities and significant challenges. With Agent Identity Security, you can confidently embrace the power of AI while mitigating the risks. Don't let ungoverned AI agents expose your organization to security breaches and compliance violations.

Visit the Agent Identity Security product page to learn more about how this solution can help you take control of every AI agent and secure your organization for the future. Or even better, schedule a personalized demo so you and your team can get a full view of Agent Identity Security and how they can work with your use cases.

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