Rubrik unveils Agent Identity to govern AI agents one tool call at a time
Rubrik Inc. today unveiled Rubrik Agent Identity, a service that governs what artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do by granting access one tool call at a time. The company announced the service at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
The service is an expansion of Rubrik Agent Cloud, the agent governance platform the company launched in October and made generally available for Anthropic PBC’s Claude in June. Agent Identity targets the credential layer beneath those deployments. Agents typically inherit the broad, standing permissions built for human employees, which means a single compromised or misbehaving agent can act destructively across software-as-a-service applications, databases and application programming interfaces before anyone notices.
“Agents are no longer just synthesizing information, they are acting on the enterprise on behalf of employees, and the access models we built for humans and static credentials were never designed for autonomous actors,” said Dev Rishi, general manager of AI at Rubrik. “Agent Identity lets enterprises decide who can do what with agents and enforces it per tool call, at the moment of action, with scoped, short-lived access and no standing permissions.”
