By CDO Magazine
Publication Date: 2026-10-29 02:21:00
IBM has announced new identity, access-control and monitoring capabilities designed to help businesses track AI agents, restrict their permissions and review their actions across enterprise systems, according to the company’s October 27 announcement.
The updates include IBM Agent Identity and new capabilities in HashiCorp Vault, which can give agents their own identities and short-lived credentials.
These controls are designed to limit each agent’s access to the systems and information needed for its assigned task, with the ability to revoke credentials when an agent attempts an unauthorized action.
IBM also announced new capabilities in watsonx Orchestrate to help organizations discover and manage agents built across platforms such as Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Google Gemini.
The discovery and containment features are in technology preview, while the platform’s agent evaluation capabilities are generally available.
The evaluation tools allow businesses to test…
