IGA for AI
Identity Governance & Administration for AI Agents
IGA for humans is a multi-billion-dollar market. IGA for AI agents applies the same discipline to non-human identities -- giving every agent a verifiable identity, managing access, and certifying rights periodically.
What is IGA for AI?
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) for humans is a well-established market led by companies like SailPoint, CyberArk, and Saviynt. It covers identity lifecycle management, access certification, privilege management, and access reviews. Every employee gets an identity, gets access based on their role, and has that access reviewed periodically.
IGA for AI agents applies this same discipline to non-human identities. Every AI agent needs a verifiable identity, a set of managed permissions, and periodic access certification -- just like a human employee.
Without agent IGA, you have identity blind spots: entities making decisions in your systems with no lifecycle management, no access reviews, and no separation of duties controls.
Why it matters in the agentic era
Your Okta instance does not have entries for your 200 AI agents. Your SailPoint deployment does not manage their access rights. Human IGA tools were built for human identities -- they do not cover AI agents that authenticate via API keys, access tools via MCP servers, and make autonomous decisions 24/7.
Without agent IGA, you cannot answer basic security questions: Which agents have access to financial data? When was that access last reviewed? Are there separation of duties conflicts? Can an agent both approve and execute a transaction? These are the questions auditors and regulators will ask.
How MeetLoyd implements IGA for AI
- SPIFFE JWT-SVIDs -- Every agent gets a cryptographic identity following the SPIFFE standard. Verifiable, non-repudiable, machine-readable.
- W3C Verifiable Credentials -- Capability badges issued as W3C VCs that prove an agent's qualifications and certifications.
- 112 granular permissions -- Fine-grained access control via OpenFGA with per-agent permission matrices and grant source tracking.
- SoD conflict detection -- 8 conflicting permission pairs detected automatically. No agent should both approve and execute financial transactions.
- Identity health monitoring -- SPIFFE coverage percentage, badge coverage percentage, expired badge detection, and access review due flagging (>90 days).