IBM Agent Identity

Overview

The identity control plane for agentic AI

AI agents are becoming active participants in business workflows, accessing data, invoking tools, making decisions and interacting with other agents.

IBM Agent Identity helps organizations securely discover, register, authenticate, authorize and govern AI agents across their lifecycle. By coordinating identity, delegated access, runtime enforcement, credential protection and governance. IBM Agent Identity enables enterprises to adopt and scale agentic AI.

Features

Secure and govern every AI agent

Establish a trusted identity for every AI agent. Discover, register and manage AI agents through a centralized inventory that provides ownership, lifecycle visibility, risk context and governance across the enterprise.

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Ensure agents act within approved authority. Preserve human-to-agent delegation and enforce context-aware, least-privilege access with short-lived permissions that align agent actions to business intent.

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Protect agent activity in real time. Continuously evaluate risk, apply policy decisions at runtime and reduce credential exposure through short-lived, purpose-specific access controls.

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Deliver accountability for every agent action. Correlate identities, permissions, credentials, policies and activities into a unified audit trail that supports governance, compliance and investigation workflows.

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Use cases

Secure AI agents across the enterprise

Secure enterprise AI agents

Bring AI assistants, copilots and autonomous agents under centralized identity and governance controls. Gain visibility into agent ownership, authorization, lifecycle status and activity across the enterprise.

Govern agent-to-agent interactions

Maintain accountability as agents communicate, collaborate and execute tasks across complex workflows. Preserve delegated authority and trace actions throughout multi-agent environments.

Protect access to enterprise systems

Ensure agents use controlled, auditable access when interacting with business applications, APIs, infrastructure and data resources. Apply contextual policy enforcement and least-privilege access at every step.

Improve audit and compliance readiness

Create evidence-grade records that connect users, agents, permissions, policy decisions, credentials and business actions to support reporting, investigations and governance requirements.