SailPoint has expanded its identity security platform with new tools to govern AI agents, machine identities and privileged access, as organisations report a rapid rise in non-human accounts across cloud and software environments. The update introduces what SailPoint calls an “adaptive identity” framework, positioned as a shift from periodic certifications and manual reviews to continuous oversight of identities and entitlements. Identity teams have long grappled with the growth of service accounts, application credentials and machine workloads. Generative AI has added another category: AI agents that can request access, call tools and interact with corporate data. These accounts can fall outside standard governance workflows, increasing the risk of unmanaged access paths. A key addition is support for discovering and governing AI agents across widely used platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Databricks, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI and Salesforce Agentforce. SailPoint also cited Microsoft Foundry, ServiceNow AI Platform, Snowflake Cortex AI and other sources of agent activity. The updates sit within SailPoint’s non-human identity products. SailPoint Agent Identity Security gains new connectors for AI agent discovery and governance, while SailPoint Machine Identity Security adds full lifecycle management for traditional machine accounts. Bringing these identities into governance has become a priority for security and risk teams. AI agents and service accounts often hold permissions that are hard to map to a single user and can be created or modified frequently. That can leave gaps in entitlement records, especially when access is granted through a mix of cloud-native policies and application-level roles.

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