Silverfort and SentinelOne have announced a strategic partnership aimed at securing human identities, AI agents, and other non-human identities (NHIs). Through this collaboration, both companies aim to deliver unified, real-time protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, and identity systems, enabling organizations to defend against increasingly sophisticated identity-based attacks.

As enterprises rapidly adopt AI-driven systems and autonomous agents, the identity landscape is becoming more complex. Today’s environments include not only human users but also service accounts, APIs, and AI-powered agents operating at machine speed. Consequently, attackers are exploiting these identities to launch faster and more scalable attacks, making traditional security approaches insufficient.

Recent incidents highlight the urgency of this challenge. For example, a North Korean threat actor recently executed a supply chain attack by hijacking npm credentials, with the first infection occurring just 89 seconds after deployment. Similarly, SentinelOne detected and blocked a trojanized version of LiteLLM generated by an autonomous coding assistant, stopping the attack in under 44 seconds. These cases demonstrate how quickly modern threats can unfold often without any human involvement.

To address this evolving threat landscape, the partnership focuses on securing identities at runtime. By combining Silverfort’s expertise in identity discovery and protection with SentinelOne’s AI-powered detection capabilities, organizations can detect and respond to threats in real time. As a result, they can reduce lateral movement, prevent privilege escalation, and contain attacks before significant damage occurs.

Moreover, the joint solution integrates identity security directly into autonomous security operations. This creates a unified control plane that connects identity and endpoint intelligence, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making. In turn, security teams gain deeper visibility into threats and can enforce policies instantly across both identity and endpoint layers.

“Security architectures built around isolated tools are failing to keep up with modern threats,” said Ron Rasin, Chief Strategy Officer, Silverfort. “By unifying runtime identity enforcement with autonomous AI Security, we are helping organizations stop identity-driven attacks before damage occurs, and preparing them to secure the next generation of AI-powered environments. Together, this joint solution enables organizations to secure their entire environment from a single platform, consistently across both cloud and on-premises environments.”

Key capabilities of the partnership include runtime identity security, which applies controls such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), just-in-time (JIT) access, and adaptive policies across all identity types. In addition, SentinelOne’s Singularity platform enhances threat detection by correlating identity and endpoint signals in real time, improving both context and response speed.

Furthermore, the integrated solution enables autonomous threat prevention by blocking malicious authentication attempts as they occur. This significantly reduces the attack window and limits the impact of potential breaches. At the same time, organizations benefit from simplified deployment and centralized management, creating a more cohesive and efficient security posture.

“In cybersecurity, the strongest defense is a unified one,” said Melissa K. Smith, SVP of Global Strategic Partnerships & Initiatives, SentinelOne. “By joining forces with Silverfort, we’re moving beyond traditional boundaries to create a security ecosystem that is truly autonomous. We want to take the guesswork out of identity protection. Together, we’re delivering a level of visibility and real-time enforcement that neither identity nor endpoint tools could achieve alone, ensuring our customers remain resilient in an increasingly complex threat landscape.”

Ultimately, this partnership reflects a broader shift toward identity-first security in the age of AI. As organizations continue to embrace automation and agentic technologies, securing identities at runtime will be critical to maintaining resilience and trust.

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