Britive Unveils Category-Defining AI Identity Security Capabilities to Govern and Secure Agentic AI Identities and Access at Runtime

New Runtime Controls For AI Agents Enable A 'Secure By Design' Approach, Removing Key Security Barriers to Enterprise AI Adoption and Innovation

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GLENDALE, CA – September 18, 2025 – Britive, the leader in cloud-native privileged access security founded on the principle of Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP), today announced the launch of a suite of new in-platform capabilities designed to secure AI identities and agentic access, including advanced runtime controls for agent-to-agent (A2A) and agent-to-tool communication via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). As enterprises carefully evaluate agentic AI adoption due to security concerns, Britive provides the essential guardrails for runtime control and governance, enabling organizations to move forward with their AI initiatives securely and with confidence.

Britive was an early leader pioneering cloud-native PAM designed to help enterprises securely adopt multi-cloud at scale. Now, Britive is again poised to lead the next wave of enterprise innovation in AI with agentic identity security capabilities built into its platform to accelerate the next wave of enterprise AI innovation. Unlike legacy solutions retrofitted for the cloud, Britive is designed to handle the scale, speed, and highly dynamic nature of modern AI workloads.

“The perimeter has shifted from network, to identity, and now from human to agent,” said Art Poghosyan, CEO and Co-founder of Britive. “AI agents are already making decisions, accessing data and tools, and executing tasks autonomously, but traditional IAM and PAM weren’t built for that. Our cloud-native platform was built from the ground up on a patented foundation of Just-in-Time access, Zero Standing Privileges, and runtime authorization, making it uniquely suited to secure this new agentic layer. Securing AI isn't a simple feature extension for legacy tools; it's a foundational shift in security that we are built for. As enterprises adopt and scale AI, Britive gives them the identity security they need to move fast with confidence.”

The Britive platform has been shaped through ongoing collaboration with hundreds of organizations of all sizes, including Fortune 500 customers across highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, biotech, life sciences, retail, and manufacturing. The new AI identity security capabilities are designed to meet the scale, compliance, and security demands of AI adoption.

“The rise of autonomous AI agents introduces a security challenge that traditional identity and security products cannot solve,” said Jim Lundy, CEO and Lead Analyst at Aragon Research. “Agentic Identity and Security Platforms (AISP), a category Aragon introduced in June, are now essential for enterprises adopting AI at scale. Britive is paving the path to this new category and is one of the first to operationalize it.” 

Enterprise security leaders echo the urgency and are already seeing the impact of securing AI at the identity layer.

"As enterprises begin deploying agentic AI, not just to support employees but to act on their behalf, a new class of identity challenges is emerging. Clearly, traditional access models weren’t built to handle autonomous, decision-making systems interacting with sensitive data and tools," said Chetan Jha, Head of Identity Security at Marqeta.

“Britive’s Agentic AI Identity Security product arrives at the right time,” Jha continued. “It brings policy enforcement, identity traceability, and runtime access controls for both agentic and human identities all in a unified platform that simplifies auditability, strengthens governance, and accelerates secure AI adoption.”

Key Use Cases and Platform Capabilities

Britive Enables Key Use Cases for Agentic AI

• Agent-to-Tool (MCP) Access: Securing how AI agents interact with and get access to enterprise data, tools, and APIs through frameworks like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), ensuring every action is authorized and controlled.
• Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication: Enabling secure communication, collaboration, and task coordination in multi-agent systems by ensuring every agent’s identity is cryptographically verifiable and its permissions are strictly enforced.
• Human-to-Agent Delegation: Governing the initial delegation of tasks and authority from a human to an AI agent, including the critical human-in-the-loop approvals required for high-risk actions.

Britive secures these use cases with powerful platform capabilities:

• Agentic AI Identity Lifecycle Management: A unified system for the secure registration, credentialing, and management of every AI agent identity from birth to retirement.
• Runtime Authorization: A dynamic policy engine that enforces Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) by granting Just-in-Time (JIT) access to agents for specific tasks, with permissions and keys that automatically expire.
• Comprehensive Audit and Compliance Reporting: Complete observability with an immutable audit trail of every permission granted and every action taken by an AI agent, ensuring full visibility for security and compliance.

For a deeper dive into the technical framework, Britive has also released a comprehensive whitepaper titled “Agentic Identity Security: Concepts, Controls, and the Britive Agentic Identity Framework.” The whitepaper is available now, alongside other key materials, in Britive's new Agentic AI Security resource center, accessible on Britive's website. This industry-wide shift is being recognized by leading analysts, customers, and partners.

Availability

Britive’s new AI Identity Security features are available now as part of the Britive platform. For more information or to request a demo, visit https://www.britive.com/platform/agentic-ai-identity-security.