SailPoint acquires Entro to strengthen Agentic Fabric
▼ Summary
– SailPoint plans to acquire Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that discovers and protects non-human identities, for about $200 million.
– Non-human identities now outnumber human users by 45 to one, and most are unmanaged, creating a security blind spot that Entro maps.
– Entro adds agentless scanning for over 1,000 machine and agent identity types and 1,200 credential kinds, linking each to its human owner.
– The deal aims to support SailPoint’s Agentic Fabric platform, targeting “zero-standing privilege” for permissions.
– This is the second non-human identity acquisition in one day, alongside 1Password’s purchase of Apono, signaling rapid market consolidation.
The market for securing machine identities is heating up rapidly, and SailPoint just made its second move of the day. The Austin-based identity security leader announced plans to acquire Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that specializes in discovering and protecting the credentials, keys, and machine accounts proliferating across modern cloud environments.
Financial terms were not disclosed, though Israeli publication Calcalist pegs the deal at roughly $200 million. This marks SailPoint’s second acquisition in Israel, and it lands on the same day 1Password agreed to buy rival Apono, underscoring a fast-consolidating sector.
The core issue is a threat landscape that barely existed a few years ago. As organizations deploy AI agents, automated scripts, and complex workflows, the volume of non-human identities has skyrocketed. Industry estimates now place the ratio at 45 non-human identities for every human user, meaning a 1,000-person company could be juggling 45,000 machine accounts. The problem is that most of these identities are unmanaged, each holding credentials, and security teams often lack visibility into them. That blind spot is exactly what Entro maps.
What Entro brings to SailPoint
SailPoint is framing the acquisition as fuel for Agentic Fabric, its recently launched platform designed to govern autonomous agents. Entro contributes a critical discovery layer: agentless scanning that covers more than 1,000 types of machine and agent identity and over 1,200 credential types across 70-plus enterprise sources, from cloud accounts to CI/CD pipelines. It then links each non-human identity back to its human owner, maps its potential “blast radius,” and monitors for anomalies in real time through what it calls Non-Human Identity Detection and Response.
The ultimate goal, in SailPoint’s language, is “zero-standing privilege” , no permission lingering longer than a task requires. Entro was founded in 2022 by Itzik Alvas and Adam Shriki and had raised approximately $24 million, most recently an $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital. Its customer roster includes Booking.com, SolarWinds, Elastic, and KAYAK, and its staff in Israel and the U. S. will integrate into SailPoint’s Israeli engineering operation. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of SailPoint’s 2027 fiscal year.
Identity security is consolidating fast
For SailPoint, this is a familiar playbook. Taken private by Thoma Bravo in a $6.9 billion deal and later returned to the Nasdaq, the company has grown through acquisitions. Entro follows last year’s purchase of Savvy, another Israeli security startup. The bigger picture is an industry coalescing around a single insight: as software begins acting autonomously, the entity enterprises most need to control is no longer a person but a machine.
Non-human identity has become one of Israeli cybersecurity’s hottest niches, with rivals such as Oasis and Astrix (the latter acquired by Cisco) competing in the same space. Two acquisitions in a single day suggest buyers believe the window to own this market is open right now.
(Source: The Next Web)