SailPoint Acquires Entro Security to Lock Down Agentic Identities
SailPoint has closed its acquisition of Tel Aviv-based Entro Security, bolstering its push to secure non-human and agentic identities.
SailPoint just closed the deal on Entro Security, and if you're trading in the identity security space, this move matters. The Austin-based identity giant snapped up the Tel Aviv startup to go harder on one of the fastest-growing attack surfaces in enterprise tech: agentic and non-human identities. AI agents, service accounts, API keys — this is where the next wave of breaches is coming from, and SailPoint knows it.
Entro Security built its name specifically around securing machine identities and secrets. That's a niche but critical capability as companies deploy more autonomous AI agents that operate without human oversight. You can't secure what you can't see, and Entro gives SailPoint the visibility layer it needed in this corner of the identity market.
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For SailPoint, which went public again on the NYSE in 2024 after being taken private by Thoma Bravo, this acquisition signals a clear product roadmap pivot toward the agentic AI era. Competitors in the identity space should be watching closely — SailPoint is moving to own the full identity lifecycle, human and non-human alike.
The deal also puts a spotlight on Israeli cybersecurity startups as prime acquisition targets. Tel Aviv's security ecosystem keeps producing companies with highly specialized capabilities that larger players are willing to pay up to absorb. If you're watching M&A flow in cyber, this is the pattern to track.
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