SailPoint Acquires Entro Security to Tackle Agentic Identity Risks
SailPoint has finalized its purchase of Tel Aviv-based Entro Security, signaling a strategic push to secure AI-driven and machine identities.
SailPoint has completed its acquisition of Tel Aviv-based Entro Security, a move that underscores the growing urgency around securing so-called agentic identities — the automated, AI-driven accounts and machine credentials that increasingly operate alongside human users inside enterprise environments. The deal marks a meaningful expansion of SailPoint's identity security portfolio at a moment when organizations are rapidly deploying autonomous AI agents that can access sensitive systems with little human oversight.
The rise of agentic AI has introduced a category of identity risk that traditional governance tools were not designed to handle. Unlike human user accounts, machine and AI agent identities can proliferate quickly, operate continuously, and often carry elevated privileges — making them attractive targets for threat actors. Entro Security had built its reputation specifically around discovering, managing, and securing these non-human identities, including secrets, service accounts, and API tokens scattered across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
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By folding Entro's capabilities into its platform, SailPoint positions itself to offer enterprises a more unified view of all identities — human and machine alike — under a single governance framework. This kind of consolidation reflects a broader industry trend: as AI adoption accelerates, the boundary between human and automated identity is blurring, and security vendors are racing to close the gaps that boundary creates.
The strategic logic here is difficult to argue with. Enterprises that deploy AI agents without robust identity controls risk creating invisible attack surfaces that legacy identity and access management tools simply cannot see. SailPoint's move to address that gap through acquisition rather than internal development suggests both the urgency and the technical complexity of the challenge. Entro's Israeli engineering roots also bring deep cybersecurity expertise into SailPoint's orbit at a time when non-human identity security is transitioning from a niche concern to a boardroom priority.
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