SailPoint, which is traded on NASDAQ and considered a leader in the field of enterprise identity security, announced its intention to acquire the Israeli startup company Entro from Tel Aviv. The details of the deal have not yet been published, but according to reports, the acquisition value stands at approximately $200 million.

Entro is a pioneer in non-human identity (NHI) security and secrets management. This acquisition marks a strategic expansion and acceleration of the Agentic Fabric platform that SailPoint recently launched, and it is expected to advance the company's vision to secure the modern enterprise through adaptive and evolving identity security across the entire digital ecosystem.

In an era where enterprises are rapidly deploying autonomous AI agents, complex cloud architectures, and programmatic workflows, modern security requirements are no longer defined by traditional security perimeters, but are rather governed by the question of who or what is accessing data, when, why, and under what conditions. Through the integration of Entro's dedicated capabilities, which directly address these unique challenges, SailPoint expects to expand the way its customers identify, manage, and protect high-risk assets from within a single unified platform. The transaction itself is subject to customary closing conditions, and it is expected to close in the third quarter of fiscal year 2027.

Mark McClain, CEO and founder of SailPoint, explained that the launch of the Agentic Fabric platform established a new paradigm for securing AI agents and non-human identities at scale, including built-in discovery, governance, and protection. According to him, integrating Entro's robust and complementary technology will grant customers an even greater advantage: Full, frictionless visibility into every non-human identity, along with the context and secrets they use to access critical corporate data.

Itzik Alvas, co-founder and CEO of Entro, added that the company was established with the goal of securing the modern cloud by discovering and protecting the vast volume of secrets and non-human identities that drive it. Alvas noted that as organizations adopt more automation and agent-based AI workloads, protecting this identity layer becomes critical, and expressed excitement about integrating Entro's deep discovery and data lineage mapping engine into SailPoint's security platform.

Upon the closing of the deal, Entro will provide additional and complementary technological features that SailPoint will integrate into its Agentic Fabric. In the first phase, the technology will enable unparalleled discovery and secrets coverage, granting visibility without the need for software agents into the specific tools, APIs, and secrets used by AI agents and machine identities. This will expand SailPoint's reach with out-of-the-box coverage for more than 1,000 types of non-human identities or agents, and will enable the discovery of over 1,200 types of secrets–including secrets, keys, tokens, and digital certificates–across more than 70 critical enterprise sources, such as cloud environments, developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and SaaS or collaborative work environments. Uncovering these tools will help SailPoint enforce deep, policy-driven governance over agent workflows and their operational boundaries.

Beyond this, Entro's technology will provide deep context and ownership attribution to humans, given that the discovery of identities is only the first step and it is necessary to tie them back to human identities for accountability. To complement SailPoint's built-in identity intelligence, Entro enriches the data with metadata in order to map precise relationships, permissions, usage, and "blast radius." This deep lineage mapping makes it possible to tie complex, non-human identities to their human owners, and together with SailPoint's access certifications and lifecycle governance, customers will be able to drive automated, closed-loop remediation processes and enforce the principle of zero standing privileges.

The third layer of the integration will focus on real-time detection and active protection. Since non-human identities must be protected on an ongoing basis after their registration, utilizing Entro's proprietary capabilities for non-human identity detection and response (NHIDR) will allow SailPoint's customers to continuously monitor AI agents and machine identities. The monitoring will detect behavioral anomalies in real time, uncover over-privileged access, enforce the principle of least privilege, and automate threat mitigation at machine speed. These capabilities directly address the leading security, privacy, and compliance risks that executives face when deploying AI agents, and will allow customers to enjoy broad visibility, ownership attribution, and control, which will transform the field of identity from a static compliance tool into a dynamic engine for enterprise success. With the help of Entro, SailPoint will continue to widen the gap from outdated approaches by offering true, end-to-end adaptive identity security.