AI Agent Identity: Build vs. Buy

As AI agents multiply across SaaS apps, developer laptops, and vendor platforms, a critical security risk is emerging. Operating outside central visibility with static API keys, shared service-account passwords, and long-lived cached tokens, these unmanaged agents create a dangerous identity gap. In fact, OWASP ranks agent identity and privilege abuse—including unclear ownership and inherited credentials—among the top three security risks for agentic applications.

Developing a security strategy that securely governs these non-human actors across your entire infrastructure is critical. Get the AI Agent Identity: Build vs. Buy whitepaper to learn why purchasing a purpose-built identity layer is the most effective way to manage AI agents across their full lifecycle—without burying your engineering team in open-ended identity maintenance.

Download your copy to learn:

• The true cost of agent sprawl: How building an in-house token broker for a single team quickly snowballs into an unmanageable engineering burden as new teams and apps are added.

• Secure cross-app access: How to eliminate static credentials and endless per-user consent screens by leveraging your enterprise identity provider to securely grant agent-scoped access to downstream SaaS apps.

• Audit-ready governance: How to discover and manage agents by implementing automated registries, scheduled access certifications, and clear deactivation workflows for departing owners.

• Future-proof compliance: How a vendor-backed identity layer automatically keeps your infrastructure compliant with rapidly shifting authorization standards, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and IETF updates