AI agents are the fastest-growing blind spot in enterprise security
Organizations are deploying AI agents at an unprecedented pace — autonomous systems that access APIs, query databases, pull from internal knowledge bases, and execute actions across the enterprise.
But these non-human identities typically operate with broad permissions, static API keys, and minimal oversight. There’s no MFA challenge. No device posture check. No continuous evaluation. Most identity platforms were built for people, not machines.
The result: AI agents become the most privileged and least governed identities in your environment. Every agent is a potential lateral movement vector that no one is watching.
One policy engine for every identity
TAC governs AI agents with the same zero-trust framework that protects your human users — from the same console, with the same policy engine.
Same platform. Same policies. Same console. Whether the identity is a person or an AI agent, TAC enforces zero-trust access consistently.
How It Works
Every agent request goes through TAC.
Nothing else gets through.
You’ve seen what TAC enforces. Here’s how. AI agents never get a direct network path to your applications, APIs, or data. They get a path to TAC — which validates identity, evaluates policy, inspects the request, and decides what happens next. Every time.
Entra ID · Okta · Ping · AD · Certificates · OAuth · SPIFFE/SPIRE
Same engine that governs human users
Full attribution, immutable, exportable
The Request Lifecycle
What happens when an agent makes a request
Five checkpoints between an AI agent and your resources — every one of them mandatory, every one of them logged.
The agent presents its credential — to TAC, not to your resources
TAC validates the agent’s credential against your existing identity source of truth: Entra ID, Okta, AD, a certificate authority, an OAuth provider, or a service mesh identity system like SPIFFE/SPIRE. TAC does not issue or own agent identities — it consumes verified identities from your IdP and enforces policy against them. No shadow identity store, no parallel directory.
TAC issues a session-scoped token. The original credential never travels further.
Once the identity is verified, TAC can issue the agent a session-specific token used for the duration of the session. The agent’s actual upstream credential — the cert, the OAuth token, the API key — never reaches your protected resources.
The session token is also useless outside TAC. It’s not a portable bearer credential. If it leaks, it can’t be replayed against your APIs directly — TAC is the only entity that honors it, and only inside an active, policy-compliant session.
TAC evaluates policy in real time, against the full request
For every request the agent makes, TAC inspects the full request at the proxy: HTTP method, URL, headers, query parameters, and payload body. Policies can act on any of it.
A clinical-summarization agent can be allowed to call GET /patients/{id}/encounters for the patients on a clinician’s active roster — but blocked from calling GET /patients/{id}/genetic-data or any endpoint outside its scope. Policy operates at the resource level — not just the endpoint — so the same agent can have different access on Monday than it has on Saturday, or different access during a cardiologist’s session than during a billing analyst’s.
The decision is enforced before the request ever reaches your systems
If the policy allows the request, TAC forwards it. If the policy denies it, the request is dropped at the proxy — your resource never sees it. If conditions have changed mid-session (an upstream identity is disabled, a posture signal degrades, a policy is updated), TAC can revoke the session in real time and stop accepting further requests on that token.
Every decision is logged with full attribution
Every request, every policy evaluation, every allow or deny is recorded with the agent identity, source, target, parameters, the policy that applied, and the decision. The audit log is searchable, exportable, and immutable — and maps to the technical evidence required by the frameworks TAC is already aligned to: NIST SP 800-207 (zero trust architecture), HIPAA / HITECH, PCI-DSS v4.0, SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, and FedRAMP.
The Outcome
Why this architecture matters
What you actually gain when every agent request runs the same gauntlet.
Your resources never see ungoverned agents
Every request that reaches an application, API, or database has already been authenticated, authorized, inspected, and logged. There is no path around TAC.
A compromised agent can’t pivot
Revoke the identity at TAC, and every resource the agent could reach is protected instantly — no key rotation across 40 systems, no scramble to find what the agent could touch.
The audit trail maps to compliance
Full attribution for every agent action — exactly the evidence required by NIST 800-207, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP. The same controls that govern your human workforce now cover every agent.
Competitive Timeline
They are announcing. TAC is shipping.
While competitors make conference announcements and preview features, TAC is in production — governing AI agents today.
Announcements ≠ Production
Competitors are at the announcement or preview stage. TAC is the only platform with production-ready AI agent governance — using the same policy engine that governs your human workforce.
Your Workforce Just Doubled. Govern All of It.
See how TAC brings production-ready AI agent governance to your environment — the same zero-trust policy engine that already protects your human workforce, extended to every agent and automated workflow.
Not a preview. Not an announcement. Production-ready, deployed today.