Ping Identity has announced enhancements to its platform that are set to transform enterprise identity management in the era of AI agents.
As businesses increasingly rely on AI for configuration, governance, and access management, Ping Identity's new features aim to address the evolving challenges of this agentic enterprise environment.
AI agents in the identity equation
AI agents are reshaping how identity systems function. They are emerging as new entities that require discovery, governance, and management throughout their lifecycle.
These AI operators assist in managing and securing identity frameworks via machine-native interfaces
These AI operators assist in managing and securing identity frameworks via machine-native interfaces. Simultaneously, desktop agents and AI assistants are interacting with enterprise resources on behalf of users, necessitating trusted access without exposing the underlying secrets.
Innovative solutions for access challenges
Ping Identity tackles these issues with a comprehensive suite of capabilities that integrate seamlessly across the platform:
- Programmable Identity: AI-centric, headless interfaces and skills enable enterprise identity programmability via MCP, CLI, APIs, and workflows designed for agents.
- Agent Discovery and Governance: Facilitating discovery, lifecycle governance, auditability, and accountability for AI agents.
- Privileged Access for Desktop Agents: Enabling just-in-time access for coding agents and AI assistants, safeguarding secrets from exposure, reducing standing privilege, and securing code commit attribution to agents.
Preserving enterprise governance
These features empower enterprises to engage with AI-driven operations without constructing a separate identity stack, thereby maintaining governance and control across all access points—human, non-human, and AI-agent. "AI agents are fundamentally changing how enterprise systems operate," stated Andre Durand, CEO and Founder of Ping Identity. "By making identity programmable, agents visible and governable, and access reliable, we are transforming identity infrastructure into a governance mechanism for the agentic enterprise."
The Ping Identity Platform is evolving beyond traditional human-oriented administration, meeting the demands of AI agents through machine-friendly interfaces such as CLI and MCP. New skills have been introduced to assist AI agents in performing identity tasks, including access configuration and flow troubleshooting, under established governance policies.
Efficient management of agent lifecycles
Ping’s new governance capabilities support organisations in managing agent lifecycles
These enhancements improve the efficiency of configuring, securing, and governing access while maintaining centralised policies and controls. Enterprises deploying AI agents need transparency regarding agent existence, access levels, operations, and accountability. Ping’s new governance capabilities support organisations in managing agent lifecycles from discovery to auditability.
To perform their roles, coding agents, AI assistants, and other desktop agents require access to enterprise resources. However, exposing long-lasting secrets poses risks. Ping Identity provides secure resource access without revealing confidential information to agents. This function extends to coding agents, ensuring code commits are traceable while granting necessary access.
Maintaining centralised control
"AI agents are revolutionising work processes and identity management," said Peter Barker, Chief Product Officer at Ping Identity. Enterprises can employ AI across systems without introducing new trust issues, as Ping’s solutions facilitate rapid AI adoption whilst upholding governance, accountability, and control.
In conclusion, these enhancements prepare the Ping Identity Platform for the agentic enterprise by ensuring programmability, lifecycle governance for AI agents, and trusted access devoid of secret exposure. Consequently, organisations can integrate AI efficiently and safely, maintaining a centralised governance approach.
Ping Identity, a pioneer in securing digital identities for the world's largest enterprises, announces new capabilities that extend the Ping Identity Platform for the agentic enterprise, where AI agents, builders, and automation increasingly participate in how access is configured, governed, and used across organisations.
AI agents are changing both sides of the identity equation. They are new actors that need to be discovered, governed, and managed across their lifecycle, and they are also new operators that can help builders administer and secure identity environments through machine-native interfaces. At the same time, desktop agents and AI assistants are beginning to interact with enterprise applications and resources on behalf of users, creating a new access challenge: agents need trusted access to do useful work, but should not be given direct exposure to the secrets that make that access possible.
Reducing standing privilege
Ping is addressing these shifts with a unified set of capabilities across the Ping Identity Platform:
- Programmable identity: AI-first, headless interfaces and skills that make enterprise identity programmable through MCP, CLI, APIs, and agent-ready workflows
- Agent Discovery and Governance: discovery, lifecycle governance, auditability, and human accountability for AI agents
- Privileged Access for Desktop Agents: just-in-time access to enterprise resources for coding agents, AI assistants, and other desktop agents, designed to prevent secrets from being exposed to agents, reduce standing privilege, and attribute code commits to agents
Operational governance infrastructure
Together, these capabilities help enterprises support AI-driven operations without creating a parallel identity stack, preserving governance and control across human, non-human, and AI-agent access.
"AI agents are fundamentally changing how enterprise systems operate," said Andre Durand, CEO and Founder, Ping Identity. "As enterprises make applications consumable by AI agents, Ping is making identity programmable, agents visible and governable, and resource access trustworthy. Identity is evolving from authentication infrastructure into operational governance infrastructure for the agentic enterprise."
Machine-friendly interfaces
Enterprise identity is moving beyond human-only administration through graphical consoles. As teams adopt AI agents, code assistants, and machine-driven workflows, identity needs to become easier to configure, automate, and govern through machine-friendly interfaces.
The Ping Identity Platform extends enterprise identity through AI-first headless interfaces that allow builders and agents to work with identity programmatically, including through CLI and MCP. Ping is also introducing agent-ready skills that help AI agents understand and perform common identity tasks, including configuring access, troubleshooting flows, and applying governance controls within approved policies and guardrails.
Machine-driven workflows
Together, these interfaces and skills help teams configure, secure, and govern access more efficiently while continuing to apply centralised policies, approvals, and controls across the identity environment. As enterprises deploy AI agents across environments, they need visibility into which agents exist, what they can access, how they operate, and who is accountable for their actions.
Ping's new discovery and governance capabilities help organisations manage agents across their full lifecycle from discovery and ownership assignment to access review, policy enforcement, auditability, and decommissioning. Each agent can be treated as a first-class identity, tied to a human owner, governed by policy, and auditable across development and runtime environments.
Deploying AI agents
Coding agents, AI assistants, and other desktop agents need access to enterprise applications, systems, repositories, and tools to complete work on behalf of users. But giving agents direct access to credentials or long-lived secrets creates unnecessary risk and weakens enterprise control.
Ping enables trusted access for desktop agents by brokering access to enterprise resources without exposing secrets to the agents themselves. This is further enhanced for coding agents, where code commits are attributed to the agents to allow finer policy and control. Agents get the access they need to complete work, not the secrets behind that access, while enterprises retain control over how access is granted, governed, attributed, and audited.
Centralised identity governance
"AI agents are changing both how work gets done and how identity must operate," said Peter Barker, Chief Product Officer, Ping Identity. "Enterprises need AI agents to operate across systems and resources without creating new trust gaps. Ping helps organisations adopt AI faster while preserving governance, accountability, and control."
Together, these capabilities extend the Ping Identity Platform for the realities of the agentic enterprise: identity must be programmable, AI agents must be governed across their lifecycle, and agent access must be trusted without exposing secrets. With these additions, Ping helps organisations adopt AI agents more safely and efficiently while maintaining centralised identity governance, accountability, and control.
