In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the SailPoint Navigate keynote
For most of its two-decade history, SailPoint Inc. has been the company that tells enterprises who should have access to what. At Navigate 2026 in Austin this week, it argued that it now needs to be the company that stops the wrong access the moment it happens. The keynote opened with an orchestra to illustrate […] The post In the agentic era, standing privilege must go: Key thoughts from the…
At SailPoint's Navigate 2026 keynote in Austin, the company argued that it must now focus on stopping unauthorized access to systems as artificial intelligence agents proliferate. CEO Mark McClain used the analogy of an orchestra to illustrate how discrete components must work together, warning that when they don't, the result is chaos.
Unlike traditional governance, which relies on annual audits and reviews, AI agents operate in real time, making billions of calls each day. This shift has led SailPoint to develop Agentic Fabric and Human Fabric products built on its Atlas platform, treating human and agent identities as part of one system. The company's research shows that AI agents outnumber human identities 109 to one, and 79% of organizations run AI agents in production, yet only 2% use identity security tools to govern them.
The keynote highlighted the need for runtime-only security tools to evolve into context-aware solutions that can keep pace with AI agents, with SailPoint's answer being a set of Autonomous Agents designed to detect drift, analyze issues, and deprovision access.
Written by urgent.news from SiliconANGLE's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
