Britive Introduces AI Identity Security to Govern and Secure Agentic AI Access at Runtime

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GLENDALE, CA – September 18, 2025 – Britive, the leader in cloud-native privileged access security founded on the principle of Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP), today announced the release of a category-defining suite of AI Identity Security capabilities designed to govern and secure the rise of agentic AI identities and their interactions at runtime. The new capabilities enable real-time authorization and policy enforcement across agent-to-agent (A2A) and agent-to-tool communications via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a critical step as enterprises accelerate AI adoption while maintaining strong security and compliance.

As AI agents begin autonomously making decisions, accessing enterprise data, and executing actions across systems, enterprises face a new and urgent security frontier: governing non-human and autonomous identities at machine speed. Britive’s enhanced platform provides real-time control, accountability, and governance across these emerging AI ecosystems — ensuring that agentic AI operates safely, securely, and in compliance with enterprise policies.

“The perimeter has shifted from network, to identity, and now from human to agent,” said Art Poghosyan, CEO and Co-founder of Britive. “AI agents are already making decisions, accessing data and tools, and executing tasks autonomously — but traditional IAM and PAM weren’t built for that.
Our cloud-native platform was designed from the ground up for Zero Standing Privileges and runtime authorization, making it uniquely suited to secure this new agentic layer. Securing AI isn’t a feature add-on for legacy tools — it’s a fundamental identity shift that Britive is built to solve.”

A New Class of Identity Security for the Agentic Era

Britive’s new capabilities come as enterprises rapidly experiment with autonomous and semi-autonomous AI systems. However, many organizations remain hesitant to operationalize agentic AI due to governance and access control risks, including identity sprawl, unsupervised API calls, and privilege misuse by AI agents.

Britive’s platform now provides a comprehensive control plane for agentic access, allowing organizations to authorize, monitor, and audit every identity — human, machine, or AI agent — from a single, unified policy framework.

“Agentic Identity and Security Platforms (AISP), a category we defined earlier this year, are essential for enterprise-scale AI adoption,” said Jim Lundy, CEO and Lead Analyst at Aragon Research. “Britive is one of the first companies to operationalize this model — delivering real runtime governance and Zero Standing Privileges for AI-driven workloads.”

Enterprise Leaders Recognize the Urgency

"As enterprises begin deploying agentic AI to automate decision-making and task execution, a new class of identity challenges is emerging," said Chetan Jha, Head of Identity Security at Marqeta.
"Traditional access models can’t handle the dynamic, contextual nature of AI autonomy. Britive’s agentic identity security brings together policy enforcement, traceability, and runtime access control for both AI and human identities in one unified platform — simplifying audits, strengthening governance, and accelerating secure adoption.”

Key Use Cases and Platform Capabilities

Britive’s new capabilities enable secure management and governance of agentic interactions across AI ecosystems, ensuring accountability and precision at every step.

Key Use Cases

• Agent-to-Tool (MCP) Access:
  Secures how AI agents interact with enterprise APIs, data, and applications through Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations — ensuring every action is authorized, scoped, and time-bound.
• Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication:
  Enables secure communication and collaboration in multi-agent ecosystems, validating agent identities cryptographically and ensuring privilege boundaries are never exceeded.
• Human-to-Agent Delegation:
  Governs how humans delegate authority to AI agents, defining approval workflows, policy constraints, and “human-in-the-loop” controls for sensitive or high-risk operations.

Platform Capabilities

• Agentic AI Identity Lifecycle Management:
  Provides unified, automated lifecycle management — from agent creation and credential issuance to retirement — ensuring each agent identity remains continuously governed.
• Runtime Authorization & Just-in-Time (JIT) Access:
  Enforces Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) by dynamically granting time-bound, task-specific permissions at request time — then automatically revoking them upon task completion.
• Unified Policy Engine for Humans & Agents:
  One centralized policy standard governing all identities — human, non-human, or agentic — ensuring uniform compliance, enforcement, and risk visibility across environments.
• Comprehensive Audit & Compliance Reporting:
  Delivers complete observability through immutable audit trails that capture every identity, action, and authorization — ensuring transparency for security, audit, and regulatory requirements.

A New Security Category: Agentic Identity and Security Platforms (AISP)

The announcement solidifies Britive’s leadership role in shaping the Agentic Identity and Security Platform (AISP) category — a next-generation security model that extends Zero Trust and identity governance into autonomous AI ecosystems. AISPs bridge the gap between Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AI governance, creating real-time, contextual control over machine and agentic access.

Britive’s vision aligns with this paradigm shift, empowering enterprises to:

• Govern all identity types — human, non-human, and agentic — under one policy framework.
• Enforce runtime access and ephemeral privileges for every interaction.
• Achieve end-to-end auditability of AI-driven operations without impeding innovation.

Availability and Additional Resources

The new Agentic AI Identity Security capabilities are available immediately to all Britive enterprise customers.

Britive has also released a technical whitepaper titled “Agentic Identity Security: Concepts, Controls, and the Britive Agentic Identity Framework”, available in the newly launched Agentic AI Security Resource Center on Britive’s website. The paper provides an in-depth look at securing autonomous AI access through the lens of Zero Standing Privileges and runtime authorization.

About Britive

Britive is the leader in cloud-native privileged access and identity security, empowering enterprises to secure access dynamically across multi-cloud, SaaS, and now AI-driven environments. Built on the principles of Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) and Just-in-Time (JIT) access, Britive’s platform provides dynamic authorization, automated privilege lifecycle management, and full visibility across human and non-human identities.

Founded by cybersecurity veterans and trusted by global enterprises in highly regulated industries, Britive enables organizations to innovate securely and confidently in the era of AI and automation.