Market landscapes / AI Safety, Security & Governance
Agent Identity & Access Control companies
Identity and permissions for agents rather than for people. Once software can act on its own behalf, what it is allowed to do stops being a policy document and becomes infrastructure. 32 companies and only 2 acquired so far, so this is still independent companies rather than a feature of something bigger.
Updated 12 October 2026
32 companies
2 acquired
19 hiring now
The rest of the AI Safety, Security & Governance landscape
The full map, including the sub-sectors too small to list separately.
The whole AI Safety, Security & Governance mapAI Runtime Security & Guardrails 74AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) 68AI Red Teaming & Security Testing 39Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance 29AI Security Posture & Threat Detection 24AI Data Privacy & Confidential Computing 21
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