AppViewX targets ungoverned AI agents with new identity security product

AppViewX Inc. today launched Agent Identity Security, a product that discovers, governs and monitors artificial intelligence agents across enterprise environments as autonomous software increasingly operates on sensitive systems without human oversight.

The product extends the AppViewX platform, built on the company’s machine identity and public-key infrastructure tools, into AI agent security. It gives security teams a single control plane for every machine and agent identity in their environment, according to the company.

AppViewX is pitching the launch at a problem it describes as enterprise security’s fastest-growing blind spot: AI agents that act autonomously with broad access and minimal supervision. Ungoverned agent identities can misuse privileged access and violate compliance policies, exposing organizations to security risk.

The company is framing the product around two trends hitting enterprises at once. AI agents are proliferating quickly, while the prospect of quantum computing breaking current cryptography is pushing organizations to rethink how they establish digital trust. AppViewX argues that the authentication tools most companies rely on were built for a human-centric world and were not designed for either machine-scale identity or a post-quantum environment.

“AI agents have become the largest workforce most enterprises never hired, operating autonomously across sensitive infrastructure with broad access and minimal oversight,” said Chief Executive Archit Lohokare. “This new class of identity will lead to incredible innovation if governed appropriately for the post-quantum era. Agent Identity Security gives enterprises the visibility, governance and threat detection to deploy AI agents at scale, without trading speed for security.”

Agent Identity Security includes four main capabilities. It continuously discovers agents along with their large language models, tool connections and credentials, producing a centralized AI bill of materials. It enforces policy across an agent estate, mapping to frameworks including the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Risk Management Framework, the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act and System and Organization Controls 2.

It also applies task-based access controls that restrict agents to only the tools and data each job requires, integrating with existing privileged access and identity management tooling. A fourth component, an AI companion called Guardian Agent, flags anomalous agent behavior in real time and walks teams through remediation.

The company is positioning its PKI roots as the differentiator, arguing that grounding agent governance in cryptography addresses the AI and quantum challenges together rather than as separate add-ons.

Todd Thiemann, principal analyst at Omdia, said enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they can govern them, creating “considerable business risk.” Grounding agent governance in a native PKI foundation, he said, gives enterprises the cryptographic depth to tackle both the AI and quantum challenges “in one motion, rather than bolting on solutions after the fact.”

Agent Identity Security is available now as a private preview for qualified enterprises. AppViewX will demonstrate it at the Identiverse 2026 conference.

AppViewX has raised about $50 million to date from Brighton Park Capital, including a $30 million growth round in 2019 and a $20 million Series B led by the firm in 2022.

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