[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Palo Alto Networks unveiled Idira, an identity security platform that integrates management of identities for people, machines and AI agents under a single privileged access management framework.

SiliconANGLE reported on May 12 that Idira is based on technology from CyberArk, a privileged access management specialist that Palo Alto Networks acquired in February for $25 billion. It extends CyberArk technology to control identities for machines and AI agents.

Palo Alto Networks said machine and AI identities in enterprise environments outnumber human identities by 109 to 1, and 61 percent of privileged access requests are handled as always-on access rather than granted only when needed. It also presented survey results showing 9 out of 10 companies experienced an identity-related security breach over the past year.

Idira has 3 core functions. It uses AI to continuously identify identities, privileges and access paths across an enterprise and detect risks. It enforces an approach that allows access only when needed, through dynamic controls rather than static access, without always-on privileges for any identity. It also offers AI-based policies to automate governance and compliance across the identity lifecycle.