SailPoint expands AI-powered identity security with adaptive identity framework

SailPoint announced significant advancements to its AI-powered SailPoint Platform, introducing the first in a series of capabilities that advance its adaptive identity vision, an approach designed to address the critical security challenges of IT environments.

New features include:

• Privilege: SailPoint is delivering total visibility into privilege risk with the launch of privilege discovery and classification and privilege insights, new foundational capabilities that automatically discover, classify, and provide the intelligence to secure privileged access across the enterprise.
• Non-human identities: New connectors for SailPoint Agent Identity Security can discover and govern AI agents from platforms like Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot and Databricks, in addition to Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry, Salesforce Agentforce, ServiceNow AI Platform, and Snowflake Cortex AI. Additionally, SailPoint Machine Identity Security is enhanced with full lifecycle management for traditional machine accounts.
• Agents: The new agent for SailPoint Harbor Pilot, SailPoint’s suite of AI-powered agents designed to revolutionize how SailPoint Identity Security Cloud customers manage their programs, transforms a historically complex process into a simple, guided conversation. It enables users to request access in a simple, guided conversation.
• Advancements to SailPoint Observability & Insights and SailPoint Data Access Security: New advanced Observability & Insights features deliver direct privilege visibility and risk detection within the SailPoint Identity Graph, identity comparisons, and advanced operational intelligence across all identities. SailPoint is also integrating Data Access Security with the Identity Graph to visualize data access pathways, expand context for identity and data access, and add new capabilities to map and manage sensitive data exposure.
• Modernization: A next-generation Access Certification engine and a comprehensive Separation of Duties (SoD) revamp, demonstrating a commitment to rebuilding foundational governance capabilities for performance, scale, and modern user experiences. These will be available in the second half of 2026.

Identity governance, which relies on slow, manual reviews, can no longer keep pace with the speed of cloud adoption, the explosion of AI and machine identities, and the sophistication of modern threats.

“The old way of identity governance is simply no longer effective. It’s not enough to rely on static, after-the-fact reviews in today’s dynamic threat landscape,” said Chandra Gnanasambandam, SailPoint EVP of Product and Chief Technology Officer.

“As a market leader, we are moving toward a new, AI-powered adaptive approach to provide continuous visibility and real-time governance for all identity types, including AI identities, machines, agents, and credentials. This year, we aim to help our customers move to least privilege or zero standing privilege. It’s about truly securing the business, not just checking a box, at the speed that AI-driven enterprises demand,” Gnanasambandam continued.

SailPoint’s adaptive identity framework is built on four key pillars:

• Real-time governance: Shifting from periodic reviews to continuous, automated governance that can detect, prevent, and remediate risk the moment it appears.
• Protecting AI and machines: Extending identity security beyond human users to the rapidly growing population of non-human identities, including AI agents, service accounts, and machine workloads.
• Universal and dynamic privilege: Reducing the risk of standing privilege by providing Just-in-Time (JIT) access across all enterprise environments, ensuring identities only have the specific access they need, for the minimum time required.
• Integrated threat management: Bridging the critical gap between identity management and the Security Operations Center (SOC) by correlating identity context with threat signals to detect and respond to threats faster.

“Leveraging SailPoint’s AI capabilities, TMF Group has elevated identity governance into a fully automated, intelligence‑driven capability ensuring consistent compliance across 87 jurisdictions while supporting secure global growth,” said Saurabh Gugnani, Senior Director, Global Head, Cybersecurity Engineering, Architecture & Projects at TMF Group.