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On October 27, 2026, IBM announced identity, credential, discovery, isolation, and evaluation capabilities for enterprise AI agents at TechXchange 2026. According to a report by Unite.AI, IBM Agent Identity and HashiCorp Vault 2.2 are now generally available; Agent Identity registers agents in a unified inventory, records ownership, risk classification, and lifecycle status, and issues OAuth-based short-lived, task-scoped tokens, working with IBM Verify and Vault to achieve least privilege and real-time revocation. watsonx Orchestrate adds AI Gateway as a unified execution layer that can discover third-party agents, models, and MCP servers from platforms such as Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, and Google Gemini, and isolation sandboxes and evaluation tools have also been launched. Currently, this news is reported by a single source, with no subsequent developments yet.
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IBM Launches Governed Identity and Credential Control Capabilities for AI Agents
At TechXchange 2026, IBM announced identity, credential, discovery, isolation, and evaluation capabilities for enterprise AI agents, with IBM Agent Identity and HashiCorp Vault 2.2 now generally available. Agent Identity registers agents in a unified inventory, records ownership, risk classification, and lifecycle status, and issues OAuth-based short-lived, task-scoped tokens, working with IBM Verify and Vault to achieve least privilege and real-time revocation. watsonx Orchestrate adds AI Gateway as a unified execution layer that can discover third-party agents, models, and MCP servers from platforms such as Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, and Google Gemini, and isolation sandboxes and evaluation tools have also been launched.