Segura on AI, Agentic AI and Identity Security in 2026

Before AI agents take action in your environment, your security team needs clear control over identities, credentials, privileges, and access paths.

The rapid adoption of AI and agentic AI is reshaping enterprise automation. Yet every autonomous agent that queries data, calls an API, or executes a workflow becomes a new non-human identity with privileges that can be abused if left ungoverned. For CISOs, CIOs and security architects, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI agents, but how to secure the identities and credentials they rely on before automation goes live.

What was announced

Segura published a strategic guidance article on AI, Agentic AI and Identity Security, outlining the core controls organizations need before deploying AI-driven automation. The publication highlights that AI agents operate as machine identities with persistent access to systems, secrets and sensitive data, and therefore must be governed under the same Privileged Access Management (PAM) principles applied to human administrators.

Segura emphasizes four pillars: identity inventory for AI agents, secrets and credential vaulting, least-privilege enforcement on agent actions, and continuous session monitoring with full audit trails. The guidance is aligned with Segura's position as a 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant Challenger for PAM.

Why this matters

Agentic AI introduces a new attack surface. Unlike traditional scripts, AI agents make autonomous decisions, chain tool calls, and often hold long-lived API keys or service account credentials. A compromised agent can move laterally, exfiltrate data, or escalate privileges at machine speed. For procurement leaders and security directors, the lack of identity governance for AI agents translates directly into audit findings, regulatory risk and operational exposure.

AI agents are identities. Treat them like privileged users from day one

Technical details

• Machine identity inventory: discover and classify every AI agent, service account and API consumer.
• Credential vaulting: store secrets, tokens and API keys in an encrypted vault with automated rotation.
• Least privilege: assign granular, time-bound entitlements to each agent based on task scope.
• Session recording: capture agent actions, prompts and tool calls for forensic analysis.
• Just-in-time access: elevate agent privileges only when required and revoke automatically.
• Audit and compliance: generate evidence aligned with ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2 and PCI DSS.
• Integration: connectors for major AI platforms, orchestration tools, SIEM and ITDR stacks.

Softprom and Segura

Softprom is the official distributor of Segura. Organizations planning to deploy AI agents or agentic automation can rely on Softprom expertise to design identity-first PAM architectures, integrate Segura with existing security stacks, and accelerate time to value.

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