Mergers & Acquisitions

Every acquisition comes with an unknown inventory of AI agents, non-human identities, and credentials. Without visibility into what the acquired organization has deployed and how it’s governed, you’re absorbing their security posture alongside their business.

The challenge

M&A is one of the highest-risk windows in the security calendar. Two organizations with different infrastructure, different governance practices, and different standards for how identities are provisioned and managed suddenly need to operate as one.

The identities that get missed are the ones that cause the incidents. Dormant service accounts with elevated permissions, AI agents connected to sensitive systems with no owner, hardcoded credentials inherited from a legacy codebase, OAuth tokens still active for employees who left the acquired company years ago… none of these show up in the due diligence checklist, and all of them represent real exposure from day one.

How Entro helps

Entro gives acquiring security teams immediate visibility into every AI agent, NHI, and secret across both organizations , so risk is assessed before integration begins, not discovered after an incident. From initial inventory through full governance unification, Entro compresses a process that typically takes months into days.

• Instant cross-org inventory — discover every agent, NHI, and secret across both organizations within hours of deployment, no lengthy onboarding required
• Risk prioritized from day one — over-permissioned identities, dormant accounts, exposed credentials, and ungoverned agents are surfaced and ranked by blast radius immediately
• Governance unification — bring both organizations’ identity posture under a single control plane, with consistent policy applied across the combined environment
• Ongoing monitoring through integration — NHIDR watches for anomalous behavior throughout the integration period, catching threats that exploit the transitional window

Discovery and risk assessment across both organizations

Before you can integrate two environments, you need to know what’s in them. Entro inventories every AI agent, NHI, and secret across both organizations, including the identities that no one officially provisioned and the credentials that predate the current security team.

• Full-scope inventory — identify all agents, NHIs, and secrets across every tool, vault, codebase, and platform in both organizations
• Shadow identity and shadow AI discovery — surface identities and agents that bypassed formal governance in the acquired organization, including ungoverned MCP servers and unauthorized integrations
• Risk analysis — evaluate over-permissioned and inactive NHIs, exposed credentials, and agents operating without ownership or scope
• Blast radius mapping — understand the full impact of every high-risk identity before integration decisions are made

Posture unification and governance

Disparate security practices create exploitable gaps during integration. Entro helps security teams establish a unified identity posture across both organizations fast, without waiting for full infrastructure consolidation.

• Centralized governance — bring agents, NHIs, and secrets from both organizations under a single governance framework with consistent policy enforcement
• Least-privilege alignment — right-size NHI permissions across the combined environment, reducing the scope of any identity that’s been over-provisioned
• Credential hygiene — identify and eliminate hardcoded credentials, shared secrets, and inactive tokens inherited from the acquired organization
• Policy standardization — apply Agentic Governance Architecture (AGA) controls uniformly so neither organization’s weaker practices become the combined baseline

Monitoring and response during integration

The integration window is when attackers move. Entro maintains continuous visibility throughout the process so anomalous behavior, whether from a compromised identity or an ungoverned agent, gets caught before it becomes a breach.

• Behavioral monitoring across both environments — track agent and NHI activity continuously throughout integration, flagging anything that deviates from expected behavior
• Anomaly detection — catch unusual access patterns, privilege escalations, or lateral movement that exploits the transitional state of the combined environment
• Owner attribution and escalation — every NHI and agent traced to an accountable owner across both organizations, so remediation has a clear path and doesn’t stall
• Automated response — integrate with existing workflow tools to contain threats immediately, without waiting for manual coordination across two security teams