IBM Introduces Identity and Control for AI Agents, Securing Frontier Intelligence for the Enterprise
IBM announced at TechXchange 2026 a set of AI-agent governance capabilities spanning HashiCorp Vault, Agent Identity, watsonx Orchestrate, IBM Concert, Terraform and IBM Z Atlas. The core pitch is an 'AI operating model' for agents: verified identities, least-privilege credentials with real-time revocation, cross-platform discovery across Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Google Gemini, sandboxing with kill switches, and evaluation with built-in cost tracking. Several capabilities are generally available (Vault 2.2, Agent Identity, Terraform policy), while others are in public or tech preview.
Key figures
- Session count
- 1000
- Techxchange attendees
- 6500
- Orgs confident in agent governance
- 13%
- Gartner forecast agents per fortune500 by 2028
- 150000
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