The Third Pillar of Agentic AI Security: Why It Matters Now

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As enterprises accelerate adoption of AI agents and standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new security frontier has emerged. These agents are not just productivity boosters, they are amplifiers of non-human identities (NHIs), secrets sprawl, and excessive entitlements. Without governance, they can multiply risk at unprecedented speed.

At Entro, we’ve seen this shift firsthand working with global organizations. Our platform was originally built to tame the chaos of secrets and NHIs. But as real-world attacks like the S1ngularity supply chain breach proved, threats no longer stop at exposed tokens or over-privileged service accounts. They now extend into agentic AI behavior, where agents themselves can exfiltrate secrets, exploit NHIs, and escalate privileges automatically.

That’s why we built Entro’s third security pillar: Agentic AI Observability and Governance.

Closing the AI NHI–Secrets Risk Loop

Entro now unifies all three components of the machine identity risk ecosystem:

• Secrets security – detecting exposed API keys, tokens, and credentials.
• NHI protection – monitoring anomalous behaviors of machine identities.
• Agentic AI security – discovering agents across endpoints, source code, and cloud environments, mapping them to NHIs and secrets, and continuously monitoring their lineage for threats.

With Entro’s new capabilities, enterprises gain:

• Agent discovery & contextual inventory across SaaS and MCP-based agents.
• Agentic lineage mapping to visualize relationships between agents, NHIs, secrets, and resources.
• Real-time threat detection via NHIDR™, from over-privileged agents to suspicious access attempts.

Why It Matters Now

AI agents are not simple chatbots. They are non-human identities on steroids — capable of spinning up shadow access, bypassing controls, and chaining vulnerabilities in seconds. Security teams can no longer treat agents, NHIs, and secrets in isolation.

Entro brings them together under one unified platform, delivering the visibility, ownership, and security enterprises need to stay ahead. Agents may be setting the pace, but with Entro, security teams keep stride — without compromise.