Agent IAM Core

Runtime identity for AI agents.

Agents don’t just login, they act. Agent IAM Core treats agents as first-class identities and enforces explicit delegation and authorization at the moment of action.

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Platform Alignment

Agent IAM Core is embedded into Ping Identity’s platform and sits alongside your existing CIAM, Workforce, and B2B implementations, adding agent identities, policies, and dashboards without re‑platforming.

 

  • Flexible deployment options to meet your specific needs: Single-Tenant SaaS, Multi-Tenant SaaS, Software.

  • Works with OAuth and emerging agent protocols for MCP‑based architectures.

  • Integrates with PingOne Protect and Agent Gateway to detect and identify agents interacting with your systems and control how agents reach downstream tools and data. 

  • Designed as the foundation for upcoming Agent Governance and Privilege capabilities.

Meet Agent IAM Core

AI agents are entering customer, workforce, and partner workflows at warp speed. But most enterprises are still attempting to secure them like traditional applications — with static roles, inherited privileges, and authorization at login.

 

Your agents work for you - Agent IAM Core ensures they only do what they’re allowed to do by allowing you to:

 

  • Register every agent as a unique identity.

  • Link agents to human owners.

  • Enforce explicit delegation instead of impersonation.

  • Authorize every action in real time.

  • Centrally manage agent access across CIAM, Workforce, and B2B use cases.

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How It Works

Traditional IAM assumes the login is the security boundary. Agent IAM Core shifts the boundary from login to authorization at the moment of action.

 

Explicit Agent Identity

Every AI agent is registered as a first-class identity with defined ownership and lifecycle.

 

Delegated Authority Patterns

Autonomous credentials and on-behalf-of flows prevent shared passwords and impersonation.

 

Runtime Authorization

Each action is evaluated in real time under context, policy, and risk.

 

Continuous Enforcement

Dynamic least privilege adjusts authority based on conditions to contain blast radius.

 

With Agent IAM Core, You Can:

Establish Agent Identity

with centralized onboarding and lifecycle management.

Enforce Explicit Delegation

using token exchange and scoped authority.

Limit What Agents Access

with tightly scoped entitlements and least-privilege policies.

Control Agents' Actions at Runtime

with contextual policy enforcement and human-in-the-loop approvals.

Part of the Ping Identity Platform

Securing your AI agents shouldn't require stitching together a dozen tools. We provide the industry’s most comprehensive identity platform, seamlessly combining identity verification, authentication, authorization, identity governance, privileged access, and more. Here’s what sets us apart:

 

  • All-in-one identity platform for CIAM, Workforce, and B2B use cases

  • Unmatched reliability across users, apps and AI agents

  • Trusted globally, built for enterprise scale

  • Easy to use, easier to integrate, evolves with your needs.

Business Value

Business Value

Businesses can securely launch AI-powered services faster and safely adopt autonomous workforce models knowing every AI action is governed in real time, not just at login.

Enforces least privilege for agents at the moment of execution so every agent action is evaluated against contextual policy and delegated authority to prevent overreach and detect abnormal agent behavior.

Enables explicit human oversight, audit trails, approvals, delegation, and centralized policy enforcement.

Delivers a unified control plane that reduces tool sprawl and standardizes security for developers with centralized policy, runtime enforcement and consistent authorization semantics across environments.

Begin safely developing agents that assist your customers with personalized services, driving more revenue.

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Control every AI agent action in real time.

Empower your AI agents with explicit identity, scoped delegation, and continuous authorization — so innovation doesn’t outpace control.

Frequently Asked Questions

A runtime identity solution for AI agents that treats AI agents as first-class identities and enforces authorization for every agent action in real time.

It shifts the security boundary from login to the moment of action, enforcing contextual authorization in real time.

Through explicit delegation and dynamic least privilege so agents receive narrowly scoped authority.

Yes. It extends PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud, PingOne Platform, and Ping software deployments.

Yes. It supports autonomous authentication and token-exchange/on-behalf-of flows.

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