SailPoint is set to acquire 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 startup based in Tel Aviv that specializes in identifying and safeguarding the credentials, keys, and machine accounts prevalent in cloud environments.

      The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed; however, Calcalist estimates the value at approximately $200 million. This marks SailPoint’s second acquisition in Israel, coinciding with 1Password's announcement to acquire rival Apono on the same day.

      This market, which barely existed a few years ago, has witnessed significant growth as companies integrate AI agents, scripts, and automated workflows, resulting in a surge of “non-human identities.” Industry estimates suggest these non-human identities outnumber human users by 45 to 1, meaning a company with 1,000 employees could manage around 45,000 of these identities.

      Most of these identities remain unmanaged, each possessing its own credentials, and security teams often struggle to monitor them. This gap in visibility is precisely what Entro addresses.

      What Entro contributes to SailPoint

      SailPoint is promoting this acquisition as a means to enhance its Agentic Fabric, a platform recently introduced to manage autonomous agents.

      Entro provides a discovery layer through agentless scanning that, according to the company, encompasses over 1,000 types of machine and agent identities, as well as more than 1,200 credential types drawn from over 70 enterprise sources, ranging from cloud accounts to CI/CD pipelines. It also connects each non-human identity to its human owner, maps its potential impact, and monitors for anomalies in real time through a system they refer to as Non-Human Identity Detection and Response.

      SailPoint describes its aim as achieving “zero-standing privilege,” which ensures that no permissions remain active longer than necessary for the task at hand.

      Founded in 2022 by Itzik Alvas and Adam Shriki, Entro secured around $24 million in funding, including an $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital. Its clientele includes Booking.com, SolarWinds, Elastic, and KAYAK, and the staff from its offices in Israel and the US will integrate into SailPoint's Israeli engineering team.

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

      Rapid consolidation in identity security

      This acquisition aligns with SailPoint’s previous experiences. Following its privatization by Thoma Bravo for $6.9 billion and its subsequent return to Nasdaq, SailPoint has expanded through acquisitions, with Entro being the successor to last year’s acquisition of Savvy, another Israeli security startup. The broader trend in the industry revolves around a central theme: as software increasingly operates autonomously, enterprises must focus on managing machines rather than individuals.

      Non-human identity is quickly becoming a vital sector within Israeli cybersecurity, with competitors such as Oasis and Astrix (the latter of which was acquired by Cisco) vying for prominence. Two acquisitions in a single day indicate that these buyers believe the opportunity to dominate this space is urgent.