Ping Identity announced new capabilities that extend the Ping Identity Platform for the agentic enterprise, where AI agents, builders, and automation increasingly participate in how access is configured, governed, and used across organizations.
AI agents are changing both sides of the identity equation. They are new actors that need to be discovered, governed, and managed across their lifecycle, and they are also new operators that can help builders administer and secure identity environments through machine-native interfaces. At the same time, desktop agents and AI assistants are beginning to interact with enterprise applications and resources on behalf of users, creating a new access challenge: agents need trusted access to do useful work, but should not be given direct exposure to the secrets that make that access possible.
Ping is addressing these shifts with a unified set of capabilities across the Ping Identity Platform:
- Programmable identity: AI-first, headless interfaces and skills that make enterprise identity programmable through MCP, CLI, APIs, and agent-ready workflows
- Agent Discovery and Governance: discovery, lifecycle governance, auditability, and human accountability for AI agents
- Privileged Access for Desktop Agents: just-in-time access to enterprise resources for coding agents, AI assistants, and other desktop agents, designed to prevent secrets from being exposed to agents, reduce standing privilege, and attribute code commits to agents
Together, these capabilities help enterprises support AI-driven operations without creating a parallel identity stack, preserving governance and control across human, non-human, and AI-agent access.
“AI agents are fundamentally changing how enterprise systems operate,” said Andre Durand, CEO and Founder, Ping Identity. “As enterprises make applications consumable by AI agents, Ping is making identity programmable, agents visible and governable, and resource access trustworthy. Identity is evolving from authentication infrastructure into operational governance infrastructure for the agentic enterprise.”
AI-First Headless Interfaces and Skills
Enterprise identity is moving beyond human-only administration through graphical consoles. As teams adopt AI agents, code assistants, and machine-driven workflows, identity needs to become easier to configure, automate, and govern through machine-friendly interfaces.
The Ping Identity Platform extends enterprise identity through AI-first headless interfaces that allow builders and agents to work with identity programmatically, including through CLI and MCP. Ping is also introducing agent-ready skills that help AI agents understand and perform common identity tasks, including configuring access, troubleshooting flows, and applying governance controls within approved policies and guardrails.
Together, these interfaces and skills help teams configure, secure, and govern access more efficiently while continuing to apply centralized policies, approvals, and controls across the identity environment.