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IBM gives AI agents their own identities and revocable permissions

IBM made Agent Identity and HashiCorp Vault 2.2 generally available Tuesday at its TechXchange conference, letting companies issue verifiable identities to agents, limit what data they reach and revoke access quickly. Discovery and containment of agents across platforms is in tech preview.

IBM cites Gartner's estimate that only 13% of organizations think they have the right agent governance in place. Treating an agent as a credentialed identity rather than a script running under a person's login is now the common enterprise answer. SourcesA

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• AIBM introduces identity and control for AI agents (IBM)newsroom.ibm.com

This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 28th 2026.