Start and stop the run
Verify delegation every turn, enforce budgets and kill switches, and revoke authority mid-run — even when the agent runs on someone else's cloud.
Live today on major hyperscaler and agent-to-agent paths.
Strategic Product
On whose authority did this agent act — and can you prove it?
From approved purpose to governed effect. Bind work to delegated authority, stop runs mid-flight, protect credentials without custody, and produce proof your auditor can verify.
From approved purpose to governed effect.
Turn continuously changing identity, risk, and delegation signals into bounded, explainable authority at the moment an AI agent acts — and govern the resulting effect.
Licensed through committed durable-agent bands and fixed deployment/capacity tiers — not transaction-based action billing.
Start with discovery
Start with visibility. Continue with control. EmpowerID discovers agent principals and turns them into identities that can be owned, authorized, monitored and revoked.
Four questions your auditor will ask
1
Who authorized it?
Named principal, owner, and delegation chain — not an anonymous runtime.
2
What was in scope?
Purpose, limits, budgets, and tools at the moment of the action.
3
Was it enforced?
The action passed through policy at the boundary — or it did not happen.
4
Can you prove it?
A verifiable record an auditor can replay without trusting vendor logs alone.
The governance socket between decision and action
Inventory tells you what agents exist. Detection flags risky behavior. EmpowerID constructs the governed relationship between a foreign-hosted agent and each authorized action — then proves it.
Control every consequential action
Force tool calls back through policy, pause high-risk steps for human approval, and produce signed proof of each governed turn.
Full action control where the runtime permits a governed callback loop.
From identity through action
Capabilities vary by contract and release. Each item shows its own maturity and scope.
Agent discovery and federation
Find agents across Okta, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Entra — and govern them as first-class identities on the same graph as people and apps.
Purpose-bound authority
A session is not the work. A prompt is not the work. Bind each undertaking to purpose, limits, budgets, and accountable owners.
Kill switch and budget gates
Stop a run mid-flight — per agent, per bounded work, or fleet-wide. Refuse work when daily or transaction budgets are exceeded.
Human approval on risky actions
High-risk tool calls pause until a named approver confirms the exact action. Tampered retries and replays are refused.
Revoke mid-run
Cancel delegation while an agent is still running. The next action fails before the external system is contacted.
Verifiable proof chain
Signed turn receipts, independently checkable — so auditors do not have to trust the agent or executor alone.
The agent gets the action, not the key
Agents receive governed results, not reusable credentials — including secrets pasted into chat, captured and vaulted at the boundary.
One policy plane. Two specialized enforcement points.
A model invocation and an enterprise tool call have different risk shapes. The Identity Fabric keeps the decision shared and the enforcement specialized.
Governed identity from the Fabric
The MCP Gateway does not have to infer who an agent is. It can enforce policy using the governed identity, owner, and delegated authority established by the Identity Fabric.
Credentials without custody at the action boundary
When an agent needs to delete 10,000 accounts, who approves with structured evidence? Who ensures it executes exactly once? Who produces proof the auditor can verify — without trusting vendor logs alone?
Human approval before risky action
High-risk tool calls pause until a named approver confirms the exact action. Bounded reasoning, evidence digests, and single-use execution authority with exactly-once semantics.
Authorization before credential use
Credentials never cross the trust boundary until policy authorizes the action. Three-zone isolation is architectural — no code path returns secrets to the agent runtime.
Policy-scoped discovery
Authorization before cognition: agents only see tools authorized for the current user and delegation. Filtering at delegation and policy layers—fail-closed. Most platforms return the full catalog at discovery time.
Verifiable proof chain
Beyond audit logs: signed evidence of what was approved, what executed, and what the outcome was — hash-chained and independently checkable.
Logs tell you what happened. Receipts prove it.
Observability is essential for operations. Audit-grade evidence requires signed, hash-chained records that bind authorization decisions to outcomes.
Every enterprise collects logs. Few can answer what auditors actually ask: who requested it, who authorized it, what exactly happened, can it be disputed, and where is the evidence?
Logs and observability
Operational visibility
System events, metrics, traces, and alerting — essential for debugging and incident response.
- System events, errors, and debug output
- Performance metrics and SLO tracking
- Distributed traces across services
- Alerting and anomaly detection
Limitation: Logs are mutable, often aggregated, and capture system events — not authorization decisions. They answer "what did the system do?" but rarely "who authorized it and can you prove it?"
Cryptographic receipts
Audit-grade proof
Signed evidence packs that capture request, authorization decision, execution, and outcome in one tamper-evident record.
- Signed receipts with hash chain to prior records
- Full identity chain: human → agent → tool
- Policy decision with constraints in effect
- Per-parameter provenance at execution time
- Cost attribution per action for FinOps
Strength: Receipts are self-contained and verifiable. An auditor can validate the chain and trace every action to a policy decision — without reconstructing events from multiple log sources.
| Dimension | Logs | Cryptographic receipts |
|---|---|---|
| Integrity | Mutable — can be edited, rotated, or aggregated | Signed and hash-chained — tampering breaks the chain |
| Identity context | Service account or IP — delegation chain often lost | Full identity chain snapshot with delegation path |
| Authorization decision | HTTP status code — no policy reference | Policy decision with constraints and obligations |
| Dispute resolution | Weak — reconstruct from multiple sources | Strong — self-contained, verifiable fingerprint |
| Regulatory readiness | Requires additional tooling to map to controls | Maps to SOX controls and EU AI Act transparency requirements |
Four layers in every receipt
1
Request
Action, parameters, requestor identity, delegation chain
2
Decision
Policy verdict, constraints, and obligations in effect
3
Execution
Method, target, shaped parameters, timestamp
4
Evidence
Cryptographic fingerprint, signature, hash chain link
Product demonstration
When trust changes, authority changes
This is a product proof narrative—not a named customer deployment. Governed Execution recalculates effective authority when signals change, before external systems are contacted.
- 1Authority is delegated to an agent for bounded work.
- 2The agent prepares a consequential action.
- 3Trust or delegation changes mid-run.
- 4The unexpired credential is no longer sufficient.
- 5EmpowerID denies before dispatch to the target system.
- 6The operator sees the causal chain in evidence.
EmpowerID Agent Teams
Governed operations within Agent Governance & Execution
The model contributes intelligence. The platform owns the operating lifecycle.
Proactive intelligence with enterprise guardrails—the model proposes, the platform decides, humans confirm, auditors verify.
Deploy scheduled, heartbeat-driven teams with governed charters, deterministic run stages, human confirmation for consequential steps, fleet controls, and linked evidence—on the Identity Fabric that governs people and machine identities.
Heartbeat
Scheduled cadence—not session-bound chat.
Team charter
Roles, scope, runs, and handoffs—not ad-hoc prompts.
Confirm
CDA gates before consequential mutation.
Prove
Covered-path receipts and operator timeline.
Fleet desk
Pause, suspend, and kill-switch without redeploy.
AI Agent Discovery registers. The gateways govern calls. Agent Teams governs how delegated agents operate together over time.
Execution boundary
A permit is not an effect
Between "allowed" and "done," authority can drift, arguments can change, credentials can escape, dispatch can be replayed, and outcomes can be misreported. EmpowerID governs that gap.
- Exact binding of mission, tool, operation, resource, and parameters
- Single-use execution authority consumed before dispatch
- The agent gets the action, not the key
- Outcome reconciliation — a timeout does not mean the payment did not happen
- Proof verifiable without trusting only the agent or executor
Adoption path
Adoption journey
- 1 Discover: Find known, unknown, and externally introduced agent principals.
- 2 Register and attribute: Create a governed identity and associate its owner, origin, purpose, and environment.
- 3 Bind authority: Record delegation, permitted resources, and lifecycle policy.
- 4 Govern actions: Apply contextual authorization through the EmpowerID Authorization Service and MCP Gateway.
- 5 Prove and contain: Correlate events and receipts; revoke, quarantine, or retire when necessary.
More than a gateway
A proxy can filter traffic. Governed execution owns the full loop from approved work to external effect.
- Durable approved work with lifecycle and termination
- Exact binding of each action to approval — not a generic "tool allowed"
- Credentials mediated, never held by the agent
- Outcome reconciliation when systems disagree
- Proof that joins approval to external effect
- Coverage of paths that bypass a simple proxy
IGA heritage
Why IGA heritage matters for agents
When EmpowerID governs your credential estate, the governed path can be the only path agents use for consequential work — twenty years of identity governance applied to the agent problem, scoped to your estate coverage.
The seam others do not occupy
Agent inventory, runtime detection, and API gateways each solve part of the problem. EmpowerID governs the actuation loop — who authorized each turn, with proof, on agents you do not host.
Agent inventory and lifecycle
Know what exists — but not who authorized each turn, with proof, on a brain you do not host.
Runtime detection and filtering
Spot risky traffic — but not construct the governed relationship that authorizes each action.
Hyperscaler control planes
Registry inside one cloud — not a cloud-neutral control plane a rival cloud would adopt.
API gateways and MCP proxies
Mediate some calls — but not durable approved work, lifecycle termination, or proof from approval to outcome.
Where execution control differs
Major identity vendors are adding agent capabilities. The seam is governed execution — structured approval, credentials without custody, and verifiable proof at the moment of action.
Enterprise identity vendors
Okta for AI Agents
GAWhat they do
Agent directory, gateway with virtual MCP server, discovery, kill switch.
Where approaches differ
Strong gateway-level control. Execution-level structured approval, credential non-exposure, and verifiable proof chain are typically assembled separately.
CyberArk / Palo Alto
GAWhat they do
Discovery, privilege controls, lifecycle management, real-time threat detection.
Where approaches differ
PAM heritage applied to agent workloads. MCP-native execution governance and semantic operation binding are not the primary design center.
SailPoint
GAWhat they do
Discovery connectors for major agent platforms, MCP server for access requests.
Where approaches differ
Discovery and governance focus — not runtime execution control at the moment of each consequential action.
ServiceNow + Veza
GAWhat they do
AI Control Tower, access graph for identity mapping, agent identity control plane.
Where approaches differ
Workflow-first approach. Runtime authorization enforcement at the execution layer with MCP-native proof is a different seam.
Microsoft Entra Agent ID
PreviewWhat they do
Agent identities, conditional access, governance, network controls.
Where approaches differ
Designed for the Microsoft ecosystem. Multi-cloud agent stacks need a cloud-neutral execution governance plane.
MCP-native authorization
Permit.io
MCP GatewayManaged MCP security gateway with auth, consent, audit.
Difference: Gateway enforcement without full identity lifecycle, purpose-bound work, or exactly-once approved execution.
Kong
API InfrastructureAPI infrastructure extending to MCP governance.
Difference: Gateway-centric ACLs — not fine-grained policy with proof chain and identity governance layer.
Obot.ai
MCP HostingMCP hosting, gateway, registry, and chat client.
Difference: Infrastructure play — role-based access without enterprise policy engine or IGA heritage.
Cerbos
AuthZ EngineOpen-source AuthZEN-compliant authorization engine.
Difference: PDP component — no PEP, gateway, lifecycle, or governed execution platform.
Vendor descriptions reflect publicly available product documentation. Capabilities change — verify current offerings directly with each vendor.
Two ways to deploy
Govern the agents you bring
Keep your current agent stack — Dify, Langflow, n8n, custom MCP clients, hyperscaler copilots. EmpowerID provides runtime authorization, policy-scoped tool access, credentials without custody, approval-before-act, and proof.
Run on a governed platform
Adopt the full Identity Fabric: identity workflows, autonomous monitoring, visual workflow design, and conversational automation — all with server-side authorization and proof.
Scope you can defend in audit
Capabilities are labeled on every path — what is governed today, what depends on platform support, and explicit limits. Security and audit teams review the same boundaries your architects see.
Runtime sets the ceiling
Some agent platforms allow full action control; others support start/stop and delegation only until an attested wrapper is deployed. Supported scope is always visible — never silently reduced.
Labels stay visible
When full action control is not available on a path, the run proceeds only at the supported scope and the maturity label reflects that.
Actions, not cognition
EmpowerID governs authorized actions and can stop runs mid-flight. Content-level control of model reasoning inside the approved ceiling is out of scope.
Proof you can verify
Evidence is independently checkable — not "trust our logs." Each statement in audit materials maps to what the receipt chain supports.
Authorize every action we can reach. Prove every outcome we produce. Say only what the record signs.
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