Saviynt Redefines Identity Security for AI Agents—Purpose-Built for Key Organizational Personas

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Artificial Intelligence is transforming the enterprise landscape — accelerating productivity, driving innovation, and introducing new forms of digital labor. But with this transformation comes a pressing question: who secures the AI agents themselves?

As organizations adopt AI-powered solutions and autonomous agents across workflows, a new dimension of identity security is emerging — one that demands protection for AI, by AI. Identity platforms must now evolve beyond managing human access to governing complex ecosystems of non-human identities (NHIs), autonomous agents, and machine-to-machine connections, all while leveraging AI to automate and enforce trust at scale.

Evolving Identity Security for the AI Era

The Saviynt Identity Cloud is redefining how enterprises approach identity governance in this new era. By blending AI-powered automation with end-to-end identity visibility, Saviynt enables organizations to manage every identity — human, non-human, and AI — through one unified platform.

As AI agents become deeply embedded in operations, Saviynt is introducing next-generation innovations designed to help enterprises secure AI agents, govern their actions, and use AI itself to enhance decision-making across the identity lifecycle.

Identity Security Built for AI — and Powered by AI

Saviynt’s new AI-driven capabilities bring targeted functionality for the key personas that keep enterprises secure and efficient:

• Business Users gain productivity through intelligent automation.
• Security Analysts receive contextual insights and prioritized risks.
• Compliance Teams enforce governance with AI-assisted evidence trails.
• Administrators & Responders manage and remediate incidents in real-time.

These innovations are anchored by three major advancements:

1. Agentic AI Onboarding for Applications — Intelligent integration and governance for both connected and disconnected apps.
2. Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) for Non-Human Identities (NHIs) — Continuous discovery and remediation for bots, service accounts, and API identities.
3. ISPM for AI Agents — A powerful new capability to secure agentic AI entities and their associated infrastructures (MCP servers, orchestration tools, and workloads).

Agentic AI Onboarding: Closing the Visibility Gap

Disconnected and unmanaged applications are one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise identity ecosystems. A Ponemon study found that nearly half of organizations (49%) don’t track all their disconnected apps, while only 21% are confident they know every app in use — creating massive governance gaps.

Saviynt’s Integration and Onboarding Agent changes that. Using Computer Using Agent (CUA) technology, it interacts with applications like a human administrator — seeing, understanding, and adapting to UI changes. Unlike traditional RPA or NLP tools, CUA agents dynamically interpret workflows, reducing onboarding time from weeks to hours while maintaining full visibility and policy enforcement.

With natural language prompts, users can create rules, automate governance, and manage integrations without writing code. This ensures even shadow applications fall under centralized identity security — eliminating gaps, reducing manual effort, and strengthening compliance readiness.

ISPM for Non-Human Identities (NHIs)

Today, non-human identities outnumber human ones by 82:1, yet 68% of organizations lack visibility into how these entities operate. Behind every cloud workload or automated workflow are countless service accounts, tokens, and APIs performing critical functions — often with excessive privileges or no clear ownership.

Saviynt’s ISPM for NHIs brings these hidden identities into focus:

• Comprehensive Discovery across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Lifecycle Visibility with detailed tracking of every creation, modification, and deprovisioning event.
• Prioritized Risk Findings that highlight high-impact vulnerabilities.
• Native ServiceNow Integration for automated remediation workflows.

Through a single unified dashboard, ISPM for NHIs links each identity to its privileges, resources, and owners — enabling enterprises to enforce least privilege, maintain audit readiness, and close compliance gaps.

ISPM for AI Agents: Governance for the Autonomous Workforce

AI agents are unlike any identity type before them. They learn, act, and make decisions autonomously — creating new governance and accountability challenges. Each agent, along with its MCP servers, tools, and integration layers, needs continuous posture assessment, access visibility, and decision traceability.

Saviynt’s ISPM for AI Agents delivers that oversight through:

• Full Discovery of all AI components across infrastructure and intelligence stacks.
• Access Path Mapping to visualize who (or what) can reach critical systems.
• Ephemeral Access Enforcement to minimize standing privileges.
• Timeline Views for complete change tracking and audit readiness.
• Guardrail Policies that proactively constrain agent behaviors and permissions.

This ensures every AI action is attributable, governed, and compliant, empowering organizations to safely embrace agentic automation without losing control over accountability or compliance.

Balancing AI Innovation with Security

Enterprises now face a dual mission:

1. Secure AI agents and the ecosystems they operate in, and
2. Harness AI to strengthen identity security itself.

Saviynt’s approach does both. By merging agentic AI capabilities with ISPM-driven visibility and governance, organizations can confidently adopt AI innovations while maintaining robust identity assurance. AI becomes both the object and enabler of modern identity security — automating compliance, detecting anomalies, and scaling governance to meet the speed of innovation.

Final Insights

As AI agents reshape digital work, they also redefine identity itself. The perimeter is no longer human — it’s autonomous, adaptive, and continuously evolving. Saviynt’s AI-driven Identity Cloud ensures that every identity, from service accounts to self-learning AI agents, operates securely, responsibly, and transparently.

By securing AI from within, enterprises can build trust in their digital ecosystems and pave the way for a secure, intelligent, and autonomous future.