SailPoint, Inc., a leader in enterprise identity security and Amazon Web Services have announced a new multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA). Building on their long-standing partnership, the agreement positions SailPoint as the preferred identity governance solution for building agent-based AI on AWS. As part of this collaboration, the two companies will expand their partnership on SailPoint Agent Identity Security and develop a centralized governance layer for all non-human identities used with AWS services.
As AI agents increasingly act on behalf of users, applications, and systems, organizations face new challenges. Through this collaboration, SailPoint and AWS will focus on creating a unified governance layer that enables the management and protection of human and non-human identities, the enforcement of access policies, and the maintenance of access control as agent workloads expand across the AWS environment.
Building a unified identity security layer to protect AI agents
This strategic collaboration agreement aims to strengthen the existing partnership between SailPoint and AWS and further deepen their technical and business ties. Together, they will help organizations consistently manage access permissions across identity, applications, data, machines, and AI agents as they adopt more autonomous, AI-driven architectures. By providing their customers with a comprehensive identity governance solution, they will facilitate a shift from traditional static access granting to dynamic and continuous governance across the entire AWS suite of services.
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The main points of this collaboration are as follows:
• Lifecycle-wide governance for all identities: We provide a single framework for managing the entire lifecycle of identities—from ownership management and access authentication to secure deletion of identities and permissions—for all people, machines, and agents using the AWS ecosystem.
• Continuous least privilege management: By analyzing real-time usage data through AWS CloudTrail and granting identities only the minimum necessary access permissions, we achieve intelligent and automated governance that enforces the principle of least privilege.
• Unified Identity Graph for 360-degree visibility: Visualize all access permission relationships between workloads, federated identities, services, and data in a single view. Enhanced visibility and control.
• Automated policy enforcement and guardrail construction: Maintain a secure environment at all times by setting up automated security guardrails that enforce access policies at all times and by implementing workflows that instantly revoke access privileges based on changes in risk, role, or behavior.
SailPoint integrates with AWS AgentCore (Bedrock AgentCore) to detect AI agents within AgentCore and manage them as identities on SailPoint. This allows SailPoint customers to manage both human and agent identities on a single screen, enabling visibility into human and agent attribution, lifecycle management, access permission review, permission optimization, and policy enforcement. In the future, SailPoint will also offer the ability to provision AgentCore agent accounts and request and grant new access permissions. This will enable customers of both companies to advance the adoption and use of AI while maintaining security controls and guardrails.
SOURCE: PRTimes


