Four vendors, four disciplines, one agent identity

Liminal’s Filip Verley hosted four vendors at Identiverse, eight minutes each, and the write-up is more useful as a map of how the agent-identity market has split than as a review of any one demo. P0 Security binds the human and the agent into a single authenticated identity so every downstream action ties back to both. Radiant Logic pulls agents running across AWS, Azure and GCP into one registry and disables an agent within seconds when its guardrail is removed. Unixi discovers shadow SaaS through a browser extension rather than IdP logs — one customer believed it had 10 to 15 applications and actually had 2,000. Transmit Security classifies traffic in three steps: is it an agent, is it managed, and what is it trying to do, at under 100ms at the 95th percentile.

Verley’s own framing is that none of the four was solving the same problem. His numbers, from Liminal’s AI Data Governance Link Index: 91% of organizations plan to deepen agent use, 76% say governance can’t keep pace, 79% of practitioners report shadow AI and 85% say it bypasses existing controls. A Ponemon survey of 600-plus IT and security leaders puts 89% of enterprise applications outside centralized MFA.

Read the source: this is an analyst firm publishing takeaways from a showcase it hosted for four vendors, and the “four separate disciplines, one identity” conclusion is also the argument for buying an analyst’s market map. The line that survives the framing is Transmit’s — detection without intent is a name without a verb. Knowing a call is signed tells you which provider signed it and nothing about what the call is for. Attestation had that shape for years before anyone called it a gap, and the agent side is arriving at it faster.