SailPoint is acquiring Entro to enhance its Agentic Fabric.

      The competition to secure non-human identities has led to its second deal of the day. SailPoint, the Austin-based identity-security leader, announced its intention to acquire Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that identifies and secures the credentials, keys, and machine accounts prevalent in every cloud environment.

      The companies did not disclose the acquisition price, but Calcalist estimates it to be around $200 million. This marks SailPoint's second acquisition in Israel and coincides with 1Password's announcement of its agreement to purchase a competitor, Apono.

      This market has rapidly expanded in recent years. With the integration of AI agents, scripts, and automated workflows, the number of “non-human identities” has surged. According to one industry estimate, these identities now outnumber human users by 45 to one, meaning a company with 1,000 employees may manage around 45,000 non-human identities.

      Most of these identities are unmanaged, each holding credentials that security teams often cannot detect. Entro addresses this issue by mapping out this blind spot.

      What Entro contributes to SailPoint

      SailPoint is positioning this acquisition as a boost for Agentic Fabric, a platform it recently unveiled to manage autonomous agents.

      Entro provides a discovery layer, featuring agentless scanning that reportedly covers over 1,000 types of machine and agent identities, as well as more than 1,200 types of credentials across over 70 enterprise sources, ranging from cloud accounts to CI/CD pipelines. It connects each non-human identity back to the human owner, assesses the “blast radius” of each identity, and monitors for real-time anomalies through its Non-Human Identity Detection and Response system.

      SailPoint aims for “zero-standing privilege,” which means no permissions remain longer than necessary for a task.

      Founded in 2022 by Itzik Alvas and Adam Shriki, Entro raised approximately $24 million, including an $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital. Its clientele features Booking.com, SolarWinds, Elastic, and KAYAK, and its teams in Israel and the US will integrate into SailPoint’s Israeli engineering division.

      The deal is anticipated to finalize in the third quarter of SailPoint’s 2027 fiscal year.

      Rapid consolidation in identity security

      For SailPoint, this acquisition is part of a familiar pattern. Acquired by Thoma Bravo in a $6.9 billion deal and subsequently returned to the Nasdaq, the company has expanded through acquisitions, with Entro following its purchase of Savvy, another Israeli security startup, last year. The overarching trend in the industry is towards consolidation around a central concept: as software begins to operate autonomously, what enterprises most need to control is increasingly a machine rather than a person.

      Non-human identities have become a significant focus in the Israeli cybersecurity landscape, with competitors like Oasis and Astrix—the latter acquired by Cisco—competing in the same space. The two acquisitions in a single day suggest that buyers believe the current opportunity to dominate this market is critical.