Identity Governance and Administration was built for humans. But the fastest-growing category of identity in your enterprise isn’t human; it’s AI agents, service accounts, API keys, and the non-human identities powering them all.
Traditional IGA tools weren’t designed for this. They can’t discover shadow AI, can’t govern agentic actions in real time, and can’t enforce least-privilege across a workforce of autonomous agents operating at machine speed.
Entro extends IGA to every AI agent and NHI in your environment. The following are the governance use cases Entro makes possible across the full identity lifecycle.
Before any governance program can work, security teams need to know what they’re governing. That’s harder than it sounds when AI agents are being deployed by developers, by vendors, and sometimes by no one with a clear mandate.
Entro discovers AI agents and MCP servers running across the cloud, SaaS, the SDLC, and endpoints, including shadow AI that was never formally sanctioned. Every discovered agent and identity is mapped with ownership, permissions, lineage, and blast radius, so security teams know not just what exists, but everything it can touch. That context is the foundation on which every governance decision is built.
When developers spin up a new agent or service account, the window between creation and proper governance is where exposure accumulates. Entro closes that window by automating the provisioning workflow, ensuring new NHIs and agent credentials are onboarded with the minimum permissions they need, routed through the right approval process, and attributed to an accountable owner from day one.
The same applies on the way out. When an agent is retired or a service is decommissioned, Entro handles the offboarding so access doesn’t linger after the need is gone.
Standing privileges are a governance failure waiting to happen. Entro’s Agentic Governance Architecture (AGA) enforces real-time policy across every agent and NHI: which AI client can access which resource, when, and for how long. Zero Trust principles mean no agent is implicitly trusted. Just-In-Time access means no agent holds elevated privileges longer than the task requires.
When access needs to change — because a role shifts, a risk surfaces, or a policy update rolls out — Entro enforces it continuously, not just at the next certification cycle.
Governance isn’t only about policy configuration. It’s about catching the moments when an agent steps outside its defined scope, whether through a behavioral anomaly, a prompt injection attempt, or intent manipulation that wasn’t there at onboarding.
Entro’s AI Detection and Response (AIDR) monitors agent intent in real time, and catches threats at the identity layer. The MCP Audit plugin tracks Claude Code sessions and every MCP server each agent contacts, creating the audit trail that compliance teams need and security teams can actually investigate. When something deviates from baseline, Entro surfaces it with enough context to act.
Regulatory frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX weren’t written with AI agents in mind, but auditors are starting to ask about them. Entro’s governance dashboards give security and compliance teams a real-time view of identity risk, access status, and policy adherence. Automated reports are formatted for the standards your auditors expect.
Segregation of Duties controls ensure no single agent or NHI accumulates conflicting permission scopes across services. Policy enforcement runs continuously so audit readiness is a state you’re always in, not a sprint you run every quarter.
Entro discovers and governs identities without disrupting the engineering workflows that depend on them. Out-of-band integrations with EDR vendors, Zero Trust providers, and cloud platforms mean security teams get full visibility fast without months of onboarding or permissions requests that stall the rollout.
As agent adoption grows, Entro scales with it. API-first architecture connects with the SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, and vaulting tools already in your stack.