Silverfort, the identity security company, and SentinelOne® (NYSE: S), a leader in AI-driven security, today announced a strategic partnership to protect human identities, AI agents and other non-human identities (NHI). This collaboration brings together industry-leading runtime security across identities, endpoints, cloud workloads and AI applications to defend against increasingly sophisticated identity attacks. As a result, organizations can confidently adopt agent-driven innovation while ensuring autonomous defenses are in place to detect and respond to both human and agent threats at machine speed.
As organizations accelerate adoption of AI-powered systems and agent-based platforms, new forms of identity risk are emerging. Modern enterprise environments are populated by many types of “workers,” including service accounts, APIs, workload identities and increasingly autonomous AI agents. These agents act on behalf of people and systems at machine speed and scale. Recent high-profile incidents have offered a glimpse of what defenders will face and the speed at which they must respond to agent-based and identity-driven threats in today’s automated enterprises.
On March 31, 2026, a North Korean state actor carried out a sophisticated supply-chain attack by compromising the npm credentials of a primary Axios developer. In this incident, the first infection appeared just 89 seconds after publication—an attack speed no manual process could match.
A week earlier, SentinelOne detected and blocked a trojanized version of LiteLLM that had been updated by an autonomous coding assistant. The malicious process chain stemmed from code executed by an AI assistant running with broad privileges and involved no human in the loop—just a routine automated workflow. In that case, SentinelOne’s behavioral AI detected the trojanized package during execution and prevented it in under 44 seconds.
While these incidents involved third-party software supply chains, they all demonstrate how quickly trusted authentication tactics can be exploited in modern, automated IT environments and how rapidly security teams must respond.
Through this partnership, Silverfort and SentinelOne address this challenge by securing identity at runtime, enabling faster containment, reduced lateral movement and limited privilege escalation. Silverfort’s expertise in discovering and protecting AI agents and non-human identities, combined with SentinelOne’s leadership in AI-driven detection and its expansion into AI security, establishes a foundation for protecting environments where humans, machines and AI agents operate concurrently and autonomously. The impact for customers is immediate and significant: identity risk becomes a first-class signal in AI-driven threat detection and automated SOC workflows, illicit authentication requests are stopped at runtime, and compromised credentials can be isolated and quarantined.
The partnership goes beyond basic integrations to deep technical collaboration and joint research, embedding identity controls directly into autonomous security operations. By aligning Silverfort’s runtime Identity Security with SentinelOne’s AI-driven Singularity™ security, the companies create a unified, real-time control plane that correlates identity and endpoint data into a single decision framework, enabling enforcement actions across both endpoint and identity domains in real time.
“Security architectures built from isolated tools can’t keep pace with modern threats,” says Ron Rasin, Chief Strategy Officer at Silverfort. “By combining runtime identity controls with autonomous AI security, we help organizations stop identity-driven attacks before they cause harm and prepare them to secure the next generation of AI-enabled environments. Together, this joint solution enables organizations to protect their entire environment from a single platform, consistently across cloud and on-premises.”
Key aspects of the joint solution and partnership include:
- Runtime identity security: Silverfort Discovers protects all identity types with runtime access controls, including multifactor authentication (MFA), just-in-time (JIT) access, virtual isolation of machine identities and customizable policies. IT teams can extend strong identity security controls to sensitive resources and assets, including legacy systems, proprietary applications and critical infrastructure that were previously unprotected.
- AI-driven threat detection and response: SentinelOne’s Singularity platform delivers advanced AI-driven detection and response across endpoints, cloud workloads and user identities. The integrated solution correlates endpoint and identity signals during execution in real time, enabling seamless data exchange to enrich threat context and accelerate remediation.
- Autonomous enforcement: The combined solution enables organizations to autonomously block identity-based threats at runtime, preventing attackers from using valid credentials to move laterally across the network. This reduces exposure windows and the overall impact of a breach. Security teams can surgically remove threat actors without disrupting business operations.
- Simplified deployment and management: Joint customers benefit from a streamlined security architecture that centralizes identity security management, improves operational efficiency and delivers consistent protections across the IT ecosystem.
“In cybersecurity, the strongest defense is a unified defense,” says Melissa K. Smith, SVP of Global Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives at SentinelOne. “Partnering with Silverfort moves us beyond traditional boundaries to build a truly autonomous security ecosystem. We want to remove the guesswork from identity protection. Together, we deliver a level of real-time visibility and enforcement that neither identity nor endpoint tools could achieve alone, ensuring our customers remain resilient in an increasingly complex threat landscape.”
About SentinelOne
SentinelOne (NYSE: S) is a leader in AI security, setting the standard for using AI and automation to give defenders a decisive operational advantage. The platform is designed for those who secure our world and provides unified coverage across endpoints, identity, cloud and AI. Powered by Autonomous Security Intelligence, SentinelOne stops attacks at machine speed, reducing risk while providing clarity and control to stay ahead of threats. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with teams around the world, SentinelOne protects nearly one-fifth of the Fortune 500 and hundreds of Global 2000 organizations. From Main Street to Wall Street, many of the world’s most important organizations rely on SentinelOne for their security.
What this means for organizations in the AI era
The Silverfort–SentinelOne partnership highlights how identity security is becoming increasingly critical as organizations deploy more AI agents, service accounts, APIs and automated workflows. In modern IT environments, traditional endpoint protection alone is no longer sufficient. Organizations need real-time control over both human and non-human identities.
Why this matters
As AI systems act autonomously, the need for secure authentication, rapid threat detection and automated response grows. Combining identity security with AI-driven cybersecurity reduces lateral movement, privilege escalation and the risk that compromised credentials are exploited at scale.
Implications for Swedish and Nordic companies
Organizations in Sweden and the Nordic region investing in AI, cloud and hybrid environments should strengthen identity, access and runtime protections. The trend shows security vendors moving toward unified models that monitor identity, endpoint, cloud and AI in real time.
Opportunities for MSPs in the Nordics
For managed service providers and security partners in the Nordics, protecting users, service accounts and AI-related identities will be essential. This creates new business opportunities in identity security, SOC, MDR, Zero Trust and AI security services.
Risks and opportunities
The opportunity lies in faster detection, better visibility and more automated response across complex IT environments. The risk is accelerating AI adoption without securing credentials, authentication and access paths. Identity security is therefore a key factor in the next phase of AI adoption.
Contextual signals
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