International Business Machines (IBM) has introduced new identity and control features for AI agents across hybrid cloud environments, combining HashiCorp Vault, Agent Identity and watsonx Orchestrate. The release gives enterprises centralized control over AI agents, including least-privilege access, real-time credential revocation and sandboxed execution of workloads. IBM says the tools can support AI agents running on Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Google Gemini within a single governance framework.
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