SailPoint to acquire Entro to strengthen non-human identity and AI security capabilities

The proposed acquisition will enhance SailPoint’s Agentic Fabric platform with expanded visibility, governance and protection for non-human identities, helping enterprises secure AI agents, machine identities and credentials across increasingly complex digital environments.

SailPoint has announced plans to acquire Entro, a specialist in non-human identity (NHI) and credentials security, as the identity security company looks to strengthen its capabilities for securing AI-driven and machine-based environments.

The proposed acquisition is expected to expand the scope of SailPoint’s recently introduced Agentic Fabric platform, which is designed to help organizations manage and secure autonomous AI agents and non-human identities. The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed during the third quarter of SailPoint’s fiscal year 2027.

The move comes as enterprises increasingly adopt AI agents, automated workflows and cloud-native architectures, creating new identity security challenges that extend beyond traditional human users. As organizations deploy larger numbers of machine identities and credentials, visibility, governance and protection have become critical components of cybersecurity strategies.

Commenting on the announcement, Mark McClain, CEO and Founder of SailPoint, said: "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. By bringing Entro’s powerful and complimentary 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 security for AI and non-human identities

Following the acquisition, SailPoint plans to integrate Entro’s technology into Agentic Fabric to broaden its coverage of non-human identities, credentials and AI agents across enterprise environments.

According to the company, Entro’s capabilities will help customers discover and manage a wide range of machine identities, application credentials, secrets, tokens and certificates across cloud environments, software development platforms, collaboration tools and other enterprise systems.

The integration is also expected to enhance identity intelligence by providing deeper visibility into relationships between machine identities and their human owners. This capability could improve accountability, strengthen governance processes and support automated remediation efforts when security risks are identified.

Real-time protection and threat detection

Another key focus area is real-time monitoring and protection. SailPoint plans to leverage Entro’s non-human identity detection and response technology to identify behavioural anomalies, detect excessive access privileges and automate threat mitigation measures.

Industry observers note that securing non-human identities has become increasingly important as organizations scale AI deployments and automation initiatives. Machine identities now significantly outnumber human identities in many enterprises, creating new challenges for access management, compliance and risk control.

Entro Co-Founder and CEO Itzik Alvas welcomed the planned acquisition, stating: "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. As enterprises embrace more automation and agentic workloads, this massive identity layer is only becoming more critical to protect. We are excited to integrate our deep, seamless discovery and lineage mapping engine into SailPoint's comprehensive identity security framework and Agentic Fabric. I believe that together, our combined non-human and AI capabilities will supercharge SailPoint's proven ability to secure every identity, human and non-human, across the global enterprise landscape."

With the acquisition, SailPoint aims to further strengthen its position in adaptive identity security and address emerging risks associated with AI-powered enterprise environments.