SailPoint acquires Entro for $200M to strengthen AI agent security through Agentic Fabric

SailPoint to buy Entro to boost its Agentic Fabric

The Austin identity-security giant is buying a Tel Aviv startup that finds and protects the credentials and machine accounts swarming through every cloud. No price was disclosed; Calcalist reports about $200m, on the same day 1Password bought a rival, Apono. The race to secure non-human identities just produced its second deal of the day. SailPoint, the Austin-based identity-security giant, said it plans to buy Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that finds and protects the credentials, keys and machine accounts that now swarm through every cloud. The companies did not disclose a price; Calcalist reports it at about $200m. It is SailPoint's second acquisition in Israel, and it landed the same day 1Password agreed to buy a rival, Apono. The point is a market that barely existed a few years ago. As companies wire in AI agents, scripts and automated workflows, the number of "non-human identities" has exploded. By one industry estimate they outnumber human users by 45 to one, which means a 1,000-person company can carry around 45,000 of them. Most are unmanaged, each holds credentials, and security teams often cannot even see them. That blind spot is exactly what Entro maps. What Entro adds to SailPoint SailPoint is pitching the deal as fuel for Agentic Fabric, the platform it recently launched to govern autonomous agents. Entro brings the discovery layer: agentless scanning that, the company says, covers more than 1,000 types of machine and agent identity and over 1,200 kinds of credential across 70-plus enterprise sources, from cloud accounts to CI/CD pipelines. It then ties each non-human identity back to the human who owns it, maps its "blast radius," and watches for anomalies in real time through what it calls Non-Human Identity Detection and Response. The goal, in SailPoint's language, is "zero-standing privilege": no permission left lying around longer than the task needs. Entro was founded in 2022 by Itzik Alvas and Adam Shriki and had raised about $24m, most recently an $18m Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital. Its customers include Booking.com, SolarWinds, Elastic and KAYAK, and its staff in Israel and the US will fold into SailPoint's Israeli engineering operation. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of SailPoint's 2027 fiscal year. Identity security is consolidating fast For SailPoint, this is familiar. Taken private by Thoma Bravo in a $6.9bn deal and since returned to the Nasdaq, it has grown by buying, and Entro follows last year's purchase of Savvy, another Israeli security startup. The bigger picture is an industry consolidating around a single idea: as software starts acting on its own, the thing enterprises most need to control is no longer a person but a machine. Non-human identity has become one of Israeli cyber's hottest corners, with rivals such as Oasis and Astrix, the latter bought by Cisco, in the same chase. Two acquisitions in one day suggest the buyers think the window to own it is now.

SailPoint acquires AI agent security startup Entro for reported $200M

SailPoint acquires AI agent security startup Entro for reported $200M SailPoint Technologies Inc. is acquiring Entro Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises secure their artificial intelligence agents. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. CTech reported that the transaction is worth about $200 million. Nasdaq-listed SailPoint sells a platform that companies use to regulate employee access to their applications. The software can rotate passwords, remove risky account permissions and perform related tasks. In March, SailPoint launched a product called Agentic Fabric that extends companies' access controls to AI agents. The acquisition of Entro will help it enhance the offering. Tel Aviv-based Entro raised about $24 million prior to the acquisition. Its namesake software platform can automatically create an inventory of the AI agents in a company's network. It creates a graph that shows how workers interact with each agent. The platform can, for example, flag that an agent should be deleted because it hasn't been accessed for over 90 days. AI agents use access credentials such as application programming interface tokens to interact with external services. According to Entro, its platform identifies credentials that are stored in an insecure manner. The software also displays related information such as how an access token was created and which services it unlocks. Entro uses the data that it collects to create a baseline model of each agent's activity patterns. When an agent displays unusual behavior that might indicate a breach, the platform notifies administrators. The alert that Entro generates includes a natural language description of the incident and the services that it affects. For example, the platform might inform administrators that an agent attempted to download files from a database it never accessed before. Entro generates remediation suggestions for the risks that it finds. A dropdown menu enables users to apply one of the recommended mitigations with a few clicks. Workers can rotate the credential used by a potentially malicious agent, notify administrators and sync incident data to external tools. Entro's technology will enable SailPoint to broaden the range of AI workloads that its Agentic Fabric product can secure. "This accelerates our native reach, bringing out-of-the-box coverage for over 1,000 NHI and agent types, plus the discovery of over 1,200 non-human identity types -- such as keys, tokens, certificates, and credentials," SailPoint Chief Marketing Officer Wendy Wu wrote in a blog post. Entro's AI agent monitoring features will also be embedded into Agentic Fabric. The integration will enable the platform to automatically mitigate risks such as application accounts that give AI agents overly broad access to sensitive data. SailPoint expects to close the acquisition in the third quarter.