At TechXchange 2026, IBM announced new capabilities to help organizations put AI agents to work with clear authority and accountability, combining agent discovery, verified identities, access controls and performance evaluation. HashiCorp Vault is extending secrets management to AI agents, with Agent Identity recording each agent's owner, lifecycle status and granted authority, enforcing least-privilege access and enabling real-time revocation when an agent attempts an unauthorized action. IBM watsonx Orchestrate is designed to unify discovery, containment and evaluation of agents across Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Google Gemini. According to Gartner, by 2028 the average Fortune 500 enterprise will use over 150,000 AI agents, but only 13% of organizations believe they have the right AI agent governance in place.
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