The two industry leaders combine resources to offer an integrated security control system that ensures autonomous runtime protection of agent, device and human identities in AI-enhanced workflows
SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, e Silverfort, a leader in integrated identity protection, enters into a strategic partnership to protect human identities, AI agents and other non-human identities (NHI). The collaboration combines advanced runtime security capabilities across identities, endpoints, cloud workflows and AI applications to defend against increasingly sophisticated identity attacks. Organizations can thus benefit from agentic innovation, while ensuring they have autonomous defenses capable of detecting and responding to both human and agentic threats at machine speed.
As the adoption of AI-based systems and agentic platforms accelerates, new forms of identity-related risk are emerging. Modern enterprise environments are populated by a wide range of “operators,” including service accounts, APIs, workload identities and, increasingly, autonomous AI agents. These non-human identities perform actions on behalf of people and systems with the speed and scalability of machines. In recent weeks, high-profile attacks have offered a preview of what awaits defenders and how quickly they will need to react to credential-based and agentic threats in today's automated enterprises.
On March 31, 2026, a North Korean entity executed a sophisticated supply chain attack compromising the npm credentials of Axios' primary operator. In this attack, the first infection was observed 89 seconds after its release, a speed that no manual process could defend against.
A week before, SentinelOne has detected and blocked a trojanized version of LiteLLM updated by an autonomous coding assistant, identifying and pre-emptively stopping a chain of malicious processes originating from Anthropic's Claude Code running with unlimited permissions. The malicious action was performed without any human intervention, as part of a normal automated workflow. In this case, SentinelOne's behavioral AI intercepted the compromised packet during execution, neutralizing it in less than 44 seconds.
While these are examples of third-party software supply chain attacks, these cases demonstrate how quickly such techniques based on 'trusted' authentication can be executed in modern, automated IT environments, and how quickly security teams must react.
Through this partnership, Silverfort and SentinelOne directly address this challenge by ensuring identity security at runtime, resulting in reduced containment times, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. Silverfort's know-how in detecting and protecting AI agents and non-human identities, combined with SentinelOne's leadership in AI-based detection and its growth in AI security, lays the foundation for protecting environments where humans, machines and AI agents operate simultaneously and autonomously. The impact for customers is immediate and concrete. Identity risk becomes a leading indicator in AI-based threat detection and automated SOC workflows, while illegitimate authentication requests are blocked at runtime and compromised credentials can be isolated and quarantined.
The partnership goes beyond simple integrations to embrace deep technical cooperation and joint research, integrating identity management directly into autonomous security operations. Thanks to the close integration between the Identity Security runtime and SentinelOne's AI-powered Singularity™ security platform, the two companies are creating a unified control layer that brings identity and endpoint information together into a single decision-making system, enabling real-time remediation at both the endpoint and identity levels.
“Security architectures based on isolated tools can no longer keep pace with modern threats,” said Ron Rasin, Chief Strategy Officer at Silverfort. "By combining runtime identity policy enforcement with autonomous AI Security, we help organizations stop identity-based attacks before they cause damage and prepare them to protect the next generation of AI-enhanced environments. Together, this joint solution allows organizations to protect their entire environment from a single platform, consistently across both cloud and on-premise environments."
Key elements of the joint solution and partnership include:
- Runtime identity protection: Silverfort discovers and protects all types of identities with run-time access controls, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), just-in-time (JIT) access, virtual fencing of machine identities, and adaptive policies. The IT team thus extends rigorous identity security controls to sensitive resources and assets, including legacy systems, proprietary applications and previously unprotected critical IT infrastructure.
- AI-enhanced threat detection and response: SentinelOne's Singularity platform delivers advanced AI-driven detection and response capabilities across endpoints, cloud workflows, and user identities. The integrated solution allows you to correlate signals from endpoints and those relating to identities during real-time execution, in order to guarantee a seamless data exchange, enriching the threat context and accelerating corrective actions.
- Autonomous safety posture: The integrated solution allows organizations to independently block identity-based threats as they run, preventing attackers from leveraging legitimate credentials to move laterally across the network. This significantly reduces the exposure window and the impact of any breaches. Incident managers can precisely eliminate threat actors without compromising the entire business.
- Simplified deployment and management: Joint customers benefit from a simplified security architecture that centralizes identity policy enforcement, improving operational efficiency and ensuring a consistent security posture across the IT ecosystem.
“In cybersecurity, the most effective defense is a unified defense,” said Melissa K. Smith, SVP of Global Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives at SentinelOne. "By pooling resources with Silverfort, we are breaking traditional boundaries to create a truly autonomous security ecosystem. We want to take the guesswork out of identity protection. Together, we deliver a level of visibility and real-time policy enforcement that neither identity nor endpoint tools could achieve alone, providing customers with resilience in an increasingly complex threat landscape."
