For twenty years, identity and access management answered one question: who is this person, and what may they do? In 2026 a second workforce showed up — autonomous, fast, and invisible to your IAM. AI agents and MCP servers now act on behalf of your employees at machine speed. They are the fastest-growing identity class in the enterprise, and the least governed.
The new reality: AI is the largest ungoverned identity class you have
Every team is shipping agents. Finance has an invoice-reconciler. Support runs a triage bot. An engineer wired up a coding agent last week that can read your repos and call production APIs. None of them appear in Okta. None have an owner on record. None are covered by your access reviews.
This is "Shadow AI," and it's not a future problem — it's already in production. The questions your board, your auditors, and your CISO are starting to ask are simple, and most enterprises can't answer them:
- How many AI agents are running in our company right now?
- What can each of them reach — which systems, which data?
- Who owns them, and what happens when one is compromised?
- Can we prove what an AI did, on whose behalf, and whether it was authorized?
Your IAM governs people. AuthSpoke governs the autonomous AI acting on their behalf — without ripping out the Okta, Entra or SailPoint you already run.
Why your existing IAM can't do this
Human IAM was built for slow, deliberate actors who log in a few times a day. AI agents are the opposite: they're created in seconds, authenticate with shared keys hardcoded in code, run thousands of actions an hour, spawn other agents, and call tools that touch real systems. Bolting an "AI feature" onto a human-login product doesn't close the gap — agents need their own identity model, their own policy engine, their own kill switch, and their own audit trail.
What an AI Control Plane actually does
AuthSpoke sits beside your IAM and takes over the moment an employee launches an AI agent. It runs four jobs continuously, across your entire AI estate:
- Discover & inventory — find every agent, model and MCP server, including the shadow AI nobody registered.
- Give each a governed identity — an owner, a lifecycle, credentials, and a continuous risk & trust score. Nothing autonomous runs anonymously.
- Authorize every action — explainable, least-privilege policy over which tools, models, MCP servers and data each agent may use.
- Score, audit & contain — an immutable record of every action, and runtime kill switches to stop an agent in seconds during an incident.
If you can't name your AI agents, you can't govern them. AuthSpoke turns your invisible, ungoverned AI estate into a managed, audited, policy-controlled part of the enterprise — in minutes, not quarters.
One platform, every part of the AI estate
AuthSpoke is a single control plane with a shared identity core and consistent APIs — consumed identically by the console, your SDKs, your CLI and the AI agents themselves. Each capability is one click away from the next:
- AI Agents — the directory of every autonomous agent.
- AI Identities — every agent as a first-class, attributable identity.
- Models — inventory, approval and residency control for every LLM in use.
- MCP Registry & Tools — the catalog of everything your agents can call.
- AI Policies — explainable allow/deny guardrails.
- Sessions — observable, instantly revocable agent runtime.
- AI Compliance — map activity to SOC 2, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
- AI Audit — the immutable, exportable record of every AI action.
Why enterprises choose AuthSpoke
- AI-first, not a human-IAM bolt-on
- Complements Okta, Entra & SailPoint — no rip-and-replace
- MCP-native, model-agnostic
- Server-side governance, not client-side hope
- EU AI Act & NIST AI RMF ready
- Under 5 minutes to your first governed agent
Take control of your enterprise AI
See how AuthSpoke discovers, governs, authorizes and audits every AI agent and MCP server — right alongside the IAM you already run.