Orchid Security Expands AI Agent Protection With Readiness Controls for Identity Governance and Emergency Shutdowns

Readiness tagging, continuous observability, and application-level shutdown controls help enterprises scale AI agent deployments while maintaining control.

New York, London – September 15, 2026 – Orchid Security today introduced identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for AI agents. The new controls address identity risks that can allow agents to quickly operate beyond their intended privileges by accessing unmanaged credentials, accounts, authentication paths, and excessive entitlements.The company's new AI readiness controls for AI agents are designed so that adoption can scale without control slipping away.

Boards Are Making AI Adoption a Strategic Imperative

Boards are focused on how quickly AI can be deployed, making it critical for security teams to enable adoption while keeping autonomous agents within sanctioned limits.

“AI transformation is exciting. Identity hygiene is not,” said Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid Security. “Boards are no longer asking whether AI will be adopted—they are asking why it is not moving faster, and security cannot answer with a blanket ‘no.’ Enterprises need to observe how agents act, understand when they drift, and govern them immediately, including terminating the authority through which they operate.”

Orchid’s Identity Gap 2026 research found that 57% of enterprise identity remains unseen and unmanaged, creating access risks AI agents can exploit within seconds.

A Control-Led Model for Deploying AI Agents

Orchid delivers continuous AI readiness through four connected stages: Observe → Understand → Govern → Prove. The Identity Control Plane discovers agents and their access paths, measures runtime activity against approved scope, identifies identity hygiene and excessive entitlements, orchestrates responses when authority drifts, and creates an auditable record connecting agent actions to identities, applications, access paths, and governance actions.

Available capabilities include AI readiness tagging, identity hygiene and security risk findings, ongoing drift detection, application-level kill switches, orchestrated credential and permission revocation, and audit generation.

Orchid has also expanded its integration ecosystem with Palo Alto Networks Idira and Splunk Enterprise Security, allowing identity findings and telemetry to flow into the security infrastructure enterprises already use.

Shannon Wilkinson, CIO and CISO at Findlay Automotive Group, said: “The challenge is how to enable the business to move faster and realize the productivity that AI agents bring, but it honestly terrifies a lot of us. At Findlay we’re leaning heavily into AI to build a better customer experience. At the same time we must define guidelines, put guardrails in place and, above all, know what the identities are doing.”

For more on Orchid Security's approach to securing autonomous identities, or to request a demo, visit https://www.orchid.security/use-case/guardrails-for-autonomous-identity.

About Orchid Security

Orchid Security provides an Identity Control Plane that delivers visibility, compliance, and control across enterprise applications. Its Identity-First Security Orchestration platform automatically discovers applications, analyzes authentication and authorization flows, and accelerates integration with identity governance systems. By uncovering and remediating hidden identity risks, Orchid helps enterprises reduce risk, lower operational costs, and achieve compliance at scale.