Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the cybersecurity platform for the AI era, today announced the intent to acquire Symmetry Systems, Inc., a pioneer in identity mapping and data access for AI security.
Symmetry Systems’ access graph maps how human and non-human identities, applications, and data connect across the enterprise — the foundational visibility security teams need to govern how AI agents communicate with applications, data, and each other at scale.
The access graph works by ingesting enterprise-wide access logs from SaaS applications, public cloud services, data stores, and AI systems, using AI to correlate them into an access graph displaying which identities are accessing which data and how. Combined with the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, this visibility will become the foundation security teams use to build and enforce the policies governing how AI agents communicate with applications, data, and one another.
“Enterprises have long governed human access through identity directories that organize users into stable groups and map those groups to the applications and data they’re allowed to use,” read this morning’s news release, “AI agents break that model.”
They operate independently across systems using ephemeral identities and inherited permissions, and their numbers are growing exponentially, creating critical blind spots around what data they touch, why, and on whose behalf.
The policies that worked for users will not scale to millions of autonomous agents communicating with applications, data, and one another. A new approach is needed.
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