By BigGo Finance
Publication Date: 2026-10-29 01:25:00
IBM has rolled out management tools that let companies find and control AI agents that move across multiple systems to handle work in place of people. The core idea: give every agent a unique identity and cut off access immediately when it attempts an unauthorized action.
IBM unveiled the new capabilities for managing and controlling AI agent identities on October 27 (U.S. time) at its annual technology event “TechXchange 2026,” held in Atlanta, Georgia. The vision is to combine agent discovery, verified identity, access control and performance evaluation into a single framework so companies can trace who owns which agent, what it can access and what it has done.
According to Gartner projections cited by IBM, U.S. Fortune 500 companies will each operate an average of more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028. Yet only 13% of organizations are seen as having proper AI agent governance in place. That gap — agent numbers exploding while the systems to manage them lag behind — is the…
