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Permiso vs SailPoint

Permiso's Universal Identity Graph connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates, the agents it runs and every action it takes in real time. SailPoint sells identity security software that discovers, governs and secures every human and non-human identity from a single platform. CISO Tribune files both under Non-human identity security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Permiso vs SailPoint: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
PermisoPermiso's Universal Identity Graph connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates, the agents it runs and every action it takes in real time.permiso.ioSailPointSailPoint sells identity security software that discovers, governs and secures every human and non-human identity from a single platform.sailpoint.com
What it sells
  • Permiso Discover[3]Provides an inventory of human, non-human and AI identities wherever they live.
  • Permiso Protect[3]Evaluates the risk posture of identities based on usage patterns, exposure and entitlements.
  • Universal Identity Graph[3][11]Connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates and the agents it runs.
  • Identity Threat Detection and Response[7]Detects threats to human and non-human identities across environments.
  • Identity Runtime Attribution[3]Ties agent runs, events and tool calls to the identity behind them.
  • SandyClaw[11]Runs agent skills in a controlled sandbox.
  • SailPoint Identity Security[15][16][23]Continuous, cloud-native identity security solution for modern enterprises.
  • SailPoint Human Fabric[10]Shifts workforce governance from scheduled audits to continuous, always-on protection.
  • SailPoint Agentic Fabric[12][15][17]Discovers, governs, and secures non-human identities such as service accounts, machines, and AI agents.
  • IdentityIQ[10][15][22]Customizable governance for complex, hybrid, and heavily regulated environments.
  • Data Access Security[19]Extends identity security and access controls to data.
  • SecOps Identity Intelligence[20]Delivers governance-grade identity context into security workflows.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesAustin, United States[3]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2005[4]
Ownership and funding
Owned by Okta since 2026[2][5]Public (NASDAQ: SAIL)[2][11][13][28]
Named customers
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
  • July 30, 2026Okta said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a startup whose software detects attackers abusing identities across cloud, SaaS and AI agent environments.[14]
  • October 6, 2026At its Navigate 2026 conference, SailPoint released IdentityIQ 9.0 for on-premises customers and added enterprise-scale features to SailPoint Human Fabric.[10]
  • August 4, 2026SailPoint unveiled its Identity Security solution, combining Agentic Fabric, now generally available, with Human Fabric, the evolution of Identity Security Cloud.[25]
  • June 29, 2026SailPoint completed its acquisition of Entro Security, a Tel Aviv company focused on non-human identity and credentials security.[11]
  • June 15, 2026SailPoint announced its intent to acquire Tel Aviv-based Entro, a company focused on non-human identity and credentials security.[26]
  • May 11, 2026SailPoint launched SailPoint Agentic Fabric, a product for securing AI agents and other non-human identities at enterprise scale.[12]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: listed, seen November 4, 2026[28]
Who it fits
Its platform is described for identities across cloud, SaaS and on-prem environments. Permiso presents its tools to security teams. Its watchlist capability is aimed at threats from employees, contractors and other trusted individuals.From its own pages, SailPoint sells mainly to enterprises. It names modern enterprises as the setting for SailPoint Identity Security, and complex, hybrid, and heavily regulated environments as the setting for IdentityIQ. Its pages say customers include Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies. IdentityIQ covers access for employees, partners, contractors, and non-human identities such as bots. SailPoint-Entro is aimed at IAM and AppSec teams, and its pages speak to financial data and sensitive patient data.
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November 2, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Permiso and SailPoint are both filed under Non-human identity security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Permiso's primary category is Identity threat detection and response; SailPoint's is Identity governance and administration.
  • Permiso is also filed under Cloud detection and response.
  • Permiso lists Permiso Discover, Permiso Protect, Universal Identity Graph, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Identity Runtime Attribution and 1 more. SailPoint lists SailPoint Identity Security, SailPoint Human Fabric, SailPoint Agentic Fabric, IdentityIQ, Data Access Security and 1 more.
  • SailPoint is headquartered in Austin, United States.
  • SailPoint was founded in 2005.
  • Permiso is owned by Okta, since 2026. SailPoint is a public company listed on NASDAQ as SAIL.
  • SailPoint publicly names Best Buy, PACCAR, The AES Corporation, Salling Group and Temple Health.

What it sells: Permiso

What Permiso Discover does[3]
Permiso Discover gives enterprises an inventory of human, non-human and AI identities wherever they live. Permiso inventories identities and assesses exposure risk in identity providers, cloud service providers and SaaS applications.
What Permiso Protect does[3]
Permiso Protect continuously evaluates the risk posture of identities based on usage patterns, exposure and entitlements. Permiso Protect surfaces and quantifies high-risk identities, stale access and toxic combinations across human, vendor, AI and non-human accounts.
What Universal Identity Graph does[3][11]
The Universal Identity Graph connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates, the agents it runs and every action it takes in real time. Permiso states that the chain stays unbroken from a human SSO login to a Lambda function to an MCP tool call. Permiso's Universal Identity Graph inventories identities in all cloud environments and assesses exposure risk.
What Identity Threat Detection and Response does[7]
Permiso provides identity threat detection and response for human and non-human identities across environments. The detection engine has 1500+ detection rules engineered by the P0 Labs team. Permiso detects access and behavioral anomalies in environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Slack and Salesforce.
What Identity Runtime Attribution does[3]
Permiso launched AI agent runtime security, bringing Identity Runtime Attribution to every agent in production. Permiso ties every run, event and tool call to the identity behind it in real time. Every agent action is tied to a specific human, non-human or AI identity in real time and is preserved as a complete audit trail.
What SandyClaw does[11]
SandyClaw runs every skill in a controlled sandbox before it touches the environment. SandyClaw records every action, every tool call and every downstream request.

What it sells: SailPoint

What SailPoint Identity Security does[15][16][23]
SailPoint Identity Security is the continuous, cloud-native solution within the SailPoint Platform. Human Fabric and Agentic Fabric are its two products. Atlas is the foundation that powers it.
What SailPoint Human Fabric does[10]
SailPoint Human Fabric is one of the two products within SailPoint Identity Security. It shifts workforce governance from scheduled audits to continuous, always-on protection.
What SailPoint Agentic Fabric does[12][15][17]
SailPoint Agentic Fabric is one of the two products within SailPoint Identity Security. It discovers, governs, and secures non-human identities such as service accounts, machines, and AI agents. Agent Identity Security has evolved into SailPoint Agentic Fabric.
What IdentityIQ does[10][15][22]
SailPoint IdentityIQ is an identity security platform built for complex enterprises. Its core modules are Compliance Manager, Lifecycle Manager, Password Manager, and File Access Manager. It connects through standards-based connectors.
What Data Access Security does[19]
SailPoint Data Access Security extends identity security and access controls to data, securing access across every identity, human or machine. It discovers where critical information lives, classifies it, and enforces least-privilege access policies.
What SecOps Identity Intelligence does[20]
SecOps Identity Intelligence delivers governance-grade identity context directly into security workflows. It is meant to help teams investigate threats faster and make more informed response decisions.

Questions about Permiso and SailPoint

What do Permiso and SailPoint sell?
Permiso sells Permiso Discover, Permiso Protect, Universal Identity Graph, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Identity Runtime Attribution and 1 more. SailPoint sells SailPoint Identity Security, SailPoint Human Fabric, SailPoint Agentic Fabric, IdentityIQ, Data Access Security and 1 more.
Are Permiso and SailPoint in the same category?
They share Non-human identity security. Permiso's primary category is Identity threat detection and response and SailPoint's is Identity governance and administration.
Where are Permiso and SailPoint headquartered?
SailPoint is headquartered in Austin, United States.
When were Permiso and SailPoint founded?
SailPoint was founded in 2005.
Who owns Permiso and SailPoint?
Permiso is owned by Okta, since 2026. SailPoint is a public company listed on NASDAQ as SAIL.
Which customers do Permiso and SailPoint name?
SailPoint publicly names Best Buy, PACCAR, The AES Corporation, Salling Group and Temple Health.
Who are Permiso and SailPoint sold to?
Its platform is described for identities across cloud, SaaS and on-prem environments. From its own pages, SailPoint sells mainly to enterprises.
What have Permiso and SailPoint announced recently?
July 30, 2026: Okta said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a startup whose software detects attackers abusing identities across cloud, SaaS and AI agent environments. October 6, 2026: At its Navigate 2026 conference, SailPoint released IdentityIQ 9.0 for on-premises customers and added enterprise-scale features to SailPoint Human Fabric.

About Permiso

Permiso's Universal Identity Graph connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates, the agents it runs and every action it takes in real time. Permiso states that the chain stays unbroken from a human SSO login to a Lambda function to an MCP tool call.[3]

Permiso states that modern threat actors are compromising identity providers and moving across environments through cloud service providers, SaaS apps and CI/CD pipelines. Permiso's library of integrations tracks activity across cloud environments. Permiso identifies the gap in agent security as what happens after authentication, where IdPs go blind to every tool call, MCP invocation and sub-agent spawn.[3]

Permiso Discover gives enterprises an inventory of human, non-human and AI identities wherever they live. Permiso Protect continuously evaluates the risk posture of identities based on usage patterns, exposure and entitlements. Permiso Protect surfaces and quantifies high-risk identities, stale access and toxic combinations across human, vendor, AI and non-human accounts. Permiso's Universal Identity Graph inventories identities in all cloud environments and assesses exposure risk. Permiso describes removing zombie accounts and identities, including vendors, that are no longer active in an environment. Permiso shows where MFA is not used and monitors the age and rotation of password and access keys. Permiso provides visualizations of different ways threat actors could compromise identities to move laterally and gain access to sensitive data.[1][3][4][6]

Permiso provides identity threat detection and response for human and non-human identities across environments. Permiso's detection engine has 1500+ detection rules engineered by its P0 Labs team, which actively researches and monitors attacks in the wild. Permiso detects access and behavioral anomalies in environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Slack and Salesforce. Permiso monitors activity and correlates user behavior to produce identity security alerts across AWS, Azure, Okta and M365. Permiso tracks the entire lifecycle of credentials, their privileges and posture, and all of the sessions in which those credentials were used and by what identity. Permiso's watchlist capability identifies and mitigates threats from employees, contractors and other trusted individuals who may pose security risks to the organization. Permiso monitors human and non-human identities for access and behavior anomalies in AWS, GitHub, Jira, Salesforce and Snowflake.[3][4][7][8]

Permiso defines non-human identities (NHIs) as any digital identity that authenticates and operates without direct human control. Permiso inventories human and non-human identities, including keys, tokens, service accounts, roles and groups. Permiso identifies orphaned, stale and overly permissive NHIs across cloud environments. Permiso provides a centralized dashboard to monitor NHIs. Permiso monitors the behavior of non-human identities and the humans using them to detect suspicious and malicious activity.[9][10]

Permiso ties every run, event and tool call to the identity behind it in real time across cloud, infrastructure, SaaS and on-prem environments. Permiso launched AI agent runtime security, bringing Identity Runtime Attribution to every agent in production. The Permiso platform gives security teams visibility into agent runs, tool calls and MCP invocations across the full agent lifecycle. Permiso finds agents in Lambda functions, containers and VMs, in the code repositories where they are defined, and behind the model endpoints where they execute. Permiso ties every agent action to a specific human, non-human or AI identity in real time. Permiso visualizes agent actions through the Universal Identity Graph and preserves them as a complete audit trail. SandyClaw runs every skill in a controlled sandbox before it touches the environment, recording every action, every tool call and every downstream request. Permiso's agent lifecycle covers discovering agents, attributing identity at runtime, detecting anomalies, sandboxing skills and enforcing controls, including kill switches. Autodesk is among the first enterprises to deploy the agent capabilities, securing AI agents across its products, workforce and cloud infrastructure.[1][3][4][11]

Permiso detects suspicious activity in Google Cloud Platform across Compute, Storage, App Engine, Secrets Manager, Logging, Network, SSO and IAM. Permiso monitors when GitHub repositories have been transferred outside the organization or updated to public. Permiso provides threat detection for 1Password's password management system. Permiso inventories users in Open AI and monitors their posture and corresponding risk. Permiso monitors only the control plane and is not exposed to any underlying or transaction data. Permiso encrypts control plane data at rest and in transit. ACV Auctions is a Permiso customer. Nutanix is a Permiso customer. Modern Health is a Permiso customer. Permiso states its mission as simplifying cloud security for technology and security professionals.[3][12][13]

Permiso on the record

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Permiso full record

  1. [1]permiso.ioPermiso · permiso.io · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Okta signs definitive agreement to acquire permiso securityOkta · okta.com · published August 26, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Detect and protect against human and non-human identity threats in real-timePermiso · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Identity Security Posture Management + Identity Threat Detection & ResponsePermiso · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Coverage across cloud environments to better secure the attack surfacePermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Human and Non-Human Identity Inventory, Risk Posture and GovernancePermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) for Human and Non-Human IdentitiesPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]How Permiso Detects Compromised Credentials In Your EnvironmentPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]What Are Non-Human Identities? Complete Guide to NHI Security for 2025Permiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Non-Human Identity (NHI) Threat Detection and ResponsePermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Secure Every AI Agent, Skill, and Action | PermisoPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
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  14. [14]Okta to acquire Permiso Security in reported $200M identity security deal - SiliconANGLESiliconANGLE · published July 30, 2026 · Tier B

SailPoint full record

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  2. [2]Sailpoint announces pricing of upsized initial public offeringSailPoint · sailpoint.com · published February 13, 2025 · Tier A
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  10. [10]Sailpoint announces modernization capabilities for both cloud and on premises identity securitySailPoint · sailpoint.com · published October 6, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Sailpoint closes entro security acquisitionSailPoint · sailpoint.com · published June 29, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Sailpoint launches agentic fabricSailPoint · sailpoint.com · published May 11, 2026 · Tier A
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  25. [25]SailPoint eliminates blind spots with unified protection across human, non-human, and AI agent identitiesSailPoint · published August 4, 2026 · Tier A
  26. [26]SailPoint Announces Intent to Acquire Entro to Accelerate and Enhance Agentic Fabric and Secure the Future of AI-Driven EnterprisesSailPoint · published June 15, 2026 · Tier A
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