Identity, AI/ML

SailPoint unifies human, machine and AI agent identity security

SailPoint has launched a unified identity security offering designed to govern human users, machine accounts, and AI agents through a single platform. Announced at Black Hat USA 2026, the new SailPoint Identity Security solution combines the company’s newly available Agentic Fabric with Human Fabric, an updated version of its Identity Security Cloud platform.

Human Fabric brings continuous access monitoring and real-time identity context into SailPoint’s workforce identity governance tools. The platform is designed to identify privilege creep, feed identity data into security operations workflows, and support just-in-time provisioning, which limits administrative access to the period required for a specific task.

Agentic Fabric focuses on non-human identities, including automated accounts, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol servers. SailPoint said the platform uses endpoint and browser sensors to identify unmanaged agents, credentials, and machine activity. It also includes prompt filtering for sensitive data, automated ownership policies and a central control that can disable an agent when suspicious behavior is detected.

The launch reflects the growing pressure on enterprises to manage identity across a workforce that now includes employees, service accounts, software bots, and AI systems. Bringing those identities into a common governance model could help security teams apply access policies more consistently, investigate identity-related threats faster and assign clear ownership as companies deploy more autonomous technology.

You can skip this ad in 5 seconds