Gartner Highlights Astrix in Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Advancing Agentic Identity Security

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The future of enterprise security is being reshaped by autonomous AI agents and Gartner’s latest Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Global Attack Surface Grid confirms just how urgent this shift has become. Astrix Security has been recognized as a sample vendor in the Agentic Identities category, spotlighting our leadership in securing this fast-moving frontier.

Why Agentic Identities Matter

Gartner defines Agentic Identities as verifiable, governable digital identities for AI agents that can perceive, reason, and act. These agents aren’t just tools—they’re autonomous principals making decisions, accessing data, and interacting with systems much like human users.

Gartner positions Agentic Identities in the 1–3 year adoption horizon with very high mass, signaling near-term, broad impact across industries. The takeaway is clear: identity must become the control plane for scaling AI securely.

Market Momentum and Enterprise Risk

The numbers underscore the urgency:

• 61% of organizations are already piloting or scaling AI agents.
• By 2026, ~40% of enterprise apps will integrate task-specific AI agents.
• By 2028, at least 15% of work decisions will be made autonomously by agents.

Yet without strong governance, enterprises risk agent-washing—projects failing due to missing value and missing controls. This gap is driving demand for identity-first approaches that secure agents with the same rigor as humans and machines.

Astrix’s Role in the Radar

Astrix’s inclusion highlights our mission: securing AI agents with identity-first security and layered guardrails. We help organizations:

• Discover and govern every agent, service account, and token.
• Apply just-in-time (JIT) access and least privilege to minimize standing permissions.
• Enforce guardrails like time-boxing, segregation of duties, and human-in-the-loop for high-risk tasks.
• Continuously monitor agent behavior and audit “acting-on-behalf-of” chains.

Gartner’s Recommendations for Leaders

Security leaders should:

• Make agent identity first-class: Provision, rotate, and revoke AI identities like employees.
• Embed AI-native defenses: Add posture management, behavioral analytics, and adversarial testing.
• Enforce layered guardrails: Constrain access with policy boundaries and real-time controls.

The Bigger Picture

Gartner’s Tech Radar frames Agentic Identities as a transformative force, not just another checkbox. As AI agents rapidly expand the enterprise attack surface, identity is emerging as the ultimate control plane. Astrix’s recognition underscores both the scale of the challenge and the opportunity to lead with security and trust.

Agentic AI is here and Astrix is building the identity-first foundation enterprises need to embrace it safely.