How do identity governance features differ across platforms, especially access reviews, least privilege enforcement and auditing for both users and agents?

“My assessment: SailPoint has a particularly mature enterprise certification heritage.”

“SailPoint has a strong focus on enterprise-wide entitlement governance.”

“SailPoint: Particularly strong for complex enterprise identity governance, entitlement management, certifications, and expanding governance across human and non-human identities.”

“Microsoft benefits from tight integration with its identity ecosystem, while Okta is developing a compelling approach to certifying both user and agent access.”

“Key takeaway: Microsoft is particularly compelling for privileged access within its ecosystem.”

“Microsoft Entra: Strong choice for integrating workforce and agent identity governance into the Microsoft security ecosystem.”

“Some agent governance capabilities are still in preview.”

“Okta: Strong choice for access certification, application governance, and extending governance to AI agent connections.”

“Okta provides a strong access-request and certification-oriented approach.”

“Its 2026 documentation specifically describes certification capabilities for AI agent access.”

“One important distinction: governance of an agent's application connections does not necessarily mean control over every action the agent performs inside those applications.”

“CyberArk: Important complementary platform for privileged access, credentials, and machine identity security.”

“An important distinction: CyberArk is primarily a privileged access and machine identity security platform rather than a direct replacement for a full enterprise IGA suite.”