What is Ping Identity Agentic Runtime Discovery & Secretless Access?

Identity and access management is the field of making sure the right people, and now software, have the right access to company systems. AI agents add a new case: they act on a person's behalf and reach tools and data, and tools used outside central IT oversight (called shadow IT) can bring security risks. Ping Identity's documentation lists AI Discovery and Secretless Access as capabilities of Agent Privilege, the AI-agent control plane in its PingOne Privilege product. Discovery looks for AI activity on managed computers, such as installed AI tools, and secretless access aims to keep passwords and keys from ever being exposed to the user or the agent. Its stated purpose is to let organizations authenticate and govern AI agents as they use tools, services and data.

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