As AI Agents Execute at Machine Speed, a New Strategic Alliance Establishes a Real-Time Control Plane for Human and Non-Human Identities
In a high-stakes response to the speed gap in modern cybersecurity, Silverfort and SentinelOne have announced a strategic partnership to secure the increasingly complex digital workforce. This alliance moves beyond simple integration, establishing a unified security control plane that protects human, machine, and AI agent identities simultaneously.
The partnership comes as recent attacks demonstrate that manual security workflows are now obsolete. On March 31, 2026, a supply chain attack was observed just 89 seconds after publication. A week prior, SentinelOne’s behavioral AI neutralized a malicious process chain from an autonomous coding assistant in under 44 seconds.
The modern enterprise is no longer populated solely by humans. It is driven by service accounts, APIs, and autonomous AI agents that execute tasks at a scale and velocity that traditional MFA cannot touch.
- These digital employees often run with unrestricted permissions, making them prime targets for lateral movement and privilege escalation.
- Silverfort extends runtime security—including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Just-in-Time (JIT) access- to these previously unprotected non-human identities. At the same time, SentinelOne provides autonomous runtime protection for the workloads they inhabit.
The core of the joint solution is the correlation of identity and endpoint signals into a single, real-time decision engine.
- Identity as a First-Class Signal: Identity risk is now embedded directly into automated SOC workflows.
- Surgical Containment: If a credential (human or agent) is compromised, the system can autonomously isolate the specific identity without disrupting the entire business operation.
- Legacy Protection: The alliance extends robust controls to legacy systems and proprietary apps that were previously incapable of supporting modern identity protocols.
“Security architectures built around isolated tools are failing to keep up with modern threats,” says Ron Rasin, Chief Strategy Officer at Silverfort. “By unifying runtime identity enforcement with autonomous AI Security, we are helping organizations stop identity-driven attacks before damage occurs.”
