SailPoint has announced what it calls as significant advancements in its AI-powered SailPoint Platform. The update introduces a suite of innovations aimed at redefining identity security and addressing the complex challenges posed by modern IT environments.
The new capabilities are part of SailPoint's adaptive identity vision, which focuses on real-time governance and comprehensive security solutions for both human and machine identities. Key features include:
- Privilege discovery and insights: SailPoint has launched new foundational capabilities to automatically discover and classify privileged access across the enterprise, providing total visibility into privilege risks.
- Non-human identity management: The platform now includes connectors for governance of AI agents from platforms such as Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot, Databricks, and other prominent AI service providers. These enhancements facilitate full lifecycle management for machine accounts.
- AI-powered agents: The introduction of the new agent for SailPoint Harbor Pilot simplifies the access request process, allowing users to navigate through a guided conversation for access management.
- Improved observability & insights: Enhanced features provide direct privilege visibility and risk detection within the SailPoint Identity Graph, offering advanced operational intelligence across all identities.
- Modernisation efforts: A next-generation Access Certification engine and revamps to Separation of Duties (SoD) governance are set to launch in the second half of 2026, reinforcing foundational governance capabilities.
According to Chandra Gnanasambandam, SailPoint's EVP of product and chief technology officer: “The old way of identity governance is simply no longer effective. It’s not enough to rely on static, after-the-fact reviews in today's dynamic threat landscape. Our aim is to move towards a new, AI-powered adaptive approach, providing continuous visibility and real-time governance for all identity types.”
SailPoint’s new adaptive identity framework is built on four key pillars:
- Real-time governance: Shifting from periodic reviews to continuous, automated governance to detect, prevent, and remediate risks instantaneously.
- Protection of AI and machine identities: Expanding identity security beyond human users to cover a rapidly increasing number of non-human identities.
- Universal and dynamic privilege: Minimising the risks associated with standing privilege by offering Just-in-Time (JIT) access.
- Integrated threat management: Correlating identity context with security threats to enable faster detection and response.
“Leveraging SailPoint’s AI capabilities, we have elevated identity governance into a fully automated, intelligence-driven capability ensuring consistent compliance across 87 jurisdictions,” noted Saurabh Gugnani, senior director at TMF Group - as quoted in the same SailPoint press release.
