SailPoint, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAIL) has announced its intention to acquire Entro, a Tel Aviv-based specialist in non-human identity (NHI) and credentials security, in a move aimed at strengthening its capabilities for securing AI agents, machine identities, and automated enterprise environments.

The planned acquisition marks a significant expansion of SailPoint’s recently launched Agentic Fabric, further advancing the company’s vision of delivering adaptive identity security across the modern digital ecosystem.

Addressing Security Challenges in the AI Era

As organizations increasingly deploy autonomous AI agents, cloud-native applications, and automated workflows, traditional security approaches centered on network perimeters are becoming less effective.

Instead, modern cybersecurity strategies are focusing on identity—understanding who or what is accessing data, when access occurs, and under what conditions.

By integrating Entro’s technology into its platform, SailPoint aims to provide organizations with broader visibility and governance over non-human identities, including AI agents, machine accounts, application credentials, secrets, tokens, and certificates.

“The recent launch of our Agentic Fabric established a new paradigm for securing autonomous AI agents and non-human identities at scale, including native discovery, governance and protection,” said Mark McClain, CEO and Founder of SailPoint.

“By bringing Entro’s powerful and complementary technology into our SailPoint platform, we will be giving our customers an even bigger advantage: frictionless, complete visibility into every non-human identity and—crucially—the context and credentials they use to access critical corporate data.”

Expanding Agentic Fabric Capabilities

Following the completion of the acquisition, SailPoint plans to integrate several of Entro’s core technologies into the Agentic Fabric platform.

Enhanced Discovery and Credential Visibility

Entro provides agentless discovery capabilities that help organizations identify the tools, APIs, credentials, and systems used by AI agents and machine identities.

The platform currently supports:

  • More than 1,000 non-human identity and AI agent types
  • Discovery of over 1,200 credential types, including secrets, keys, certificates, and access tokens
  • Visibility across more than 70 enterprise environments, including cloud platforms, SaaS applications, collaboration tools, developer environments, and CI/CD pipelines

These capabilities are expected to strengthen SailPoint’s ability to apply policy-driven governance across increasingly complex AI-driven workflows.

Improved Ownership and Accountability

One of the key challenges in managing non-human identities is determining accountability.

Entro’s technology enriches identity data with metadata that maps relationships, permissions, usage patterns, and potential impact across enterprise systems. This enables organizations to trace machine identities and AI agents back to responsible human owners.

Combined with SailPoint’s access certification and lifecycle governance capabilities, this enhanced visibility is expected to support automated remediation processes and strengthen zero-standing privilege initiatives.

Real-Time Protection and Threat Detection

The acquisition will also add Entro’s proprietary Non-Human Identity Detection and Response (NHIDR™) capabilities to SailPoint’s security portfolio.

These tools continuously monitor machine identities and AI agents for suspicious behavior and anomalies, helping organizations:

  • Detect over-privileged access
  • Enforce least-privilege principles
  • Identify potential threats in real time
  • Automate security responses and remediation

By extending identity protection beyond human users, SailPoint aims to help enterprises manage the growing security risks associated with automation and AI adoption.

Supporting Enterprise AI Adoption

According to Itzik Alvas, Co-Founder and CEO of Entro, the acquisition reflects the growing importance of securing non-human identities as organizations expand their use of AI and automation.

“We built Entro with a clear mission: to secure the modern cloud by discovering and protecting the sheer volume of credentials and non-human identities powering it,” Alvas said.

“As enterprises embrace more automation and agentic workloads, this massive identity layer is only becoming more critical to protect.”

He added that combining Entro’s discovery and lineage mapping capabilities with SailPoint’s identity security platform will help organizations better secure both human and non-human identities across their environments.

Strengthening Adaptive Identity Security

With the addition of Entro, SailPoint aims to further differentiate itself from traditional identity and access management approaches by delivering comprehensive, end-to-end adaptive identity security.

The combined platform is expected to provide organizations with greater visibility, accountability, governance, and protection across all identities—whether human, machine, or AI-driven—helping transform identity security from a compliance requirement into a strategic business enabler.

The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close during the third quarter of SailPoint’s fiscal year 2027.

For more information, visit SailPoint Agentic Fabric or SailPoint.