C1.ai CISO: William Bengtson

What the company sells

C1.ai gives agents policy-controlled access to models, tools, and credentials at runtime. C1 Agents complete multi-step jobs across connected systems, with human approval for sensitive changes. C1.ai connects to SaaS, cloud infra providers, on-prem systems, and MCP servers.

On the governance side, C1.ai turns HR and directory events into day-one account and access changes across supported systems. C1.ai provisions users the access they need based on conditions and policy. C1.ai applies policy-based provisioning and routing to any connected system. C1.ai covers user access reviews and separation-of-duties (SoD) conflict detection. C1.ai gives people and agents self-service access to approved applications and AI tools, with policy applied before fulfillment.

For self-service, C1.ai makes approved apps, MCP servers, AI tools, roles, and permissions discoverable from one catalog. People and agents can request access from the web, Slack, Microsoft Teams, MCP, API, or CLI. C1.ai auto-approves routine access and routes sensitive requests using identity, role, resource, and risk context. C1.ai expires just-in-time access automatically so temporary permissions do not become standing access.

For cloud infrastructure, C1.ai provides engineers and agents with precisely scoped cloud access. C1.ai reads cloud providers' resource trees, preserving the parent-child relationships each platform uses natively. C1.ai resolves inherited permissions in real time. C1.ai provisions, adjusts, and revokes access automatically as roles change, teams shift, or agents are redeployed.

Every action in the console is available via API, and C1.ai operates as an MCP server. C1.ai governs human, service, workload, and AI agent identities from one control plane. C1.ai logs every action with full context: subject, actor, delegation chain, purpose, resource, policy, and outcome. C1.ai supports policies as Terraform, AI-written CEL and functions, and validation via API. Technical teams extend C1.ai with APIs, custom functions, CLI, webhooks, and an AI integration builder, and manage it with Terraform.

C1.ai includes 300+ connectors, built on Baton, which is open source under Apache 2.0, that integrate IdPs, directories, SaaS apps, cloud infrastructure, and on-prem systems into one identity graph. The connectors can be hosted or self-hosted. The identity graph ingests identity, permission, and resource data from all of your systems. C1.ai visualizes access paths for users, non-human identities, applications, and resources. C1.ai addresses access risks such as orphaned accounts, inactive users, and high-risk users. C1.ai offers built-in remediation options such as downgrading access, offboarding accounts, and securing service accounts. C1.ai connects to non-cloud infrastructure, including LDAP, Postgres, and Microsoft SQL. C1.ai covers on-premises technology such as Active Directory and homegrown and back-office apps.

IGS Energy started looking for a partner after an external auditor recommended an identity governance solution to streamline user access reviews.^{[1][2][3][4][6][7][8]}

Categories

• Identity governance and administration (primary category)
• Non-human identity security
• Privileged access management
• AI model and agent security
• Compare C1.ai with companies in the same categoryside by side

Headquarters

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Founded

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Ownership

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CISO on record

William Bengtson, CISO (roster, verified November 10, 2026)

Website

c1.ai

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• AI-Native Identity Governance^[1][2]

  Automates lifecycle, access requests, reviews, and compliance for human and non-human identities.

• NHI & Identity Security^[1][2]

  Discovers and alerts on identity and non-human identity risks across the workforce and agents.

• Agent SSO & Runtime Governance^[1][2]

  Enforces runtime guardrails and access controls for AI agents, with human-in-the-loop approval.

• Apps & MCP Self Service^[1][2]

  Provides on-demand self-service access to approved apps, MCPs, and AI tools.

• Deploy Custom Agents^[1][2]

  Lets organizations run autonomous agents across connected systems with guardrails.

• Shadow AI Discovery^[1][2]

  Finds unsanctioned AI tools, agents, MCP servers, and credentials in use.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of C1.ai's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On identity governance and administration, C1.ai competes with Orchid Security, Saviynt, One Identity, SailPoint, Veza, CyberArk, Delinea, Immuta, Cayosoft, RSA Security and 1 more.

• On non-human identity security, C1.ai competes with Oasis Security, Akeyless, Clutch Security, Infisical, Token Security, Aembit, Astrix Security, AuthMind, Cygrid, NewCore and 30 more.

• On privileged access management, C1.ai competes with Apono, CyberArk, Delinea, P0 Security, BeyondTrust, Britive, HashiCorp, Keeper Security, SSH Communications Security, Orchid Security and 9 more.

• On ai model and agent security, C1.ai competes with Onyx Security, Reco, AIShield, Alice, Asymptote Labs, Bay, Dreadnode, Enkrypt AI, Fiddler AI, HiddenLayer and 54 more.

Recent news

Dated company events from the last twelve months, each in one sentence of ours with its source. Newest first.

• October 13, 2026

  Workday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire C1.ai, with the transaction expected to close in the fourth quarter of Workday's fiscal year 2027, ending January 31, 2027. C1.ai^[9]

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

1. [1]conductorone.comConductorOne (C1.ai) · conductorone.com · undated page, accessed November 2, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]C1.ai | Put AI to WorkC1.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]AI-Native Identity Governance Solutions | C1.aiC1.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]Self-Service Access for Apps, MCPs, and AI Tools | C1.aiC1.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]Infrastructure Access - C1.aiC1.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
6. [6]Headless Identity Infrastructure | C1.aiC1.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]Identity Graph - C1.aiC1.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
8. [8]Automating access management and reducing risk for IGS Energy’s hybrid environment | C1.aiC1.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
9. [9]Workday to Acquire C1.ai, a Leading Agentic Identity Platform for People and AgentsC1.ai · published October 13, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

Last verified November 2, 2026. Our code found the quoted passage behind each fact on its source page when the fact was recorded, and re-checks every record against its sources each month.

Recorded November 2, 2026, expanded November 10, 2026 from the references above.

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