SailPoint will hold its Navigate conference from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8 in Austin, Texas, an event centered on how identity security is being reshaped as enterprises add AI agents to their existing populations of human and machine identities. The company is framing identity as a new control point for enterprise security under the theme "AI, secured." TheCUBE will broadcast interviews and analysis from the event on Oct. 6 and 7, with theCUBE Research principal analyst Krista Case and co-host Rebecca Knight speaking to industry executives and identity security leaders.
The focus lands as agentic AI complicates longstanding identity governance practices. Unlike employees and traditional machine identities, AI agents can act on behalf of people, interact with applications and data, acquire permissions and execute work at machine speed. Case said agentic AI turns identity governance into an execution problem, and that enterprises need to know who or what is acting, whose authority it carries, what it can reach and whether that authority still applies as a task changes.
Scale is a central concern. A SiliconANGLE Media guest analysis by ZK Research principal analyst Zeus Kerravala cited SailPoint research finding that 97% of AI agents have access to sensitive data, while only 21% of organizations are highly confident they can manage AI agent security risks. Kerravala also pointed to a SailPoint proof of concept at a Fortune 500 company that uncovered more than 10,000 previously unknown AI agents. He said organizations cannot govern what they cannot see.
SailPoint is positioning its platform around continuous rather than periodic governance. Executive vice president of product and chief technology officer Chandra Gnanasambandam said in August that the industry is moving beyond static compliance into an active, continuous security loop, describing a unified ability to discover every identity, govern access lifecycle policies and protect the enterprise through real-time risk remediation. Case said the hardest part of agent governance is organizational, since agents can be created and deployed faster than traditional access processes can discover, assign ownership and govern them.
SailPoint founder and chief executive officer Mark McClain said the proliferation of AI agents is creating a new class of non-human identities, each representing a new attack surface. He said the company's collaboration with AWS is intended to provide a foundation through a unified identity plane, giving joint customers visibility and control over an AI-driven ecosystem.
Case cautioned that organizations should be careful with claims that a single platform will become the control plane for agentic AI, noting that agent governance spans identity, runtime infrastructure, applications, data and security telemetry. TheCUBE's coverage is expected to examine how enterprises discover and classify AI agents, connect them to accountable human owners, apply least-privilege access and revoke permissions when an agent's task or purpose changes.
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