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Accutive Security

The Cryptography, Data Protection and Identity Security Center of Excellence

Secure Every Identity with Idira

We leverage Idira to secure every identity in your enterprise – the people who log in, the machines that run your infrastructure, and the AI agents now acting on their behalf.

Human Identities

Modern privileged access, endpoint control, and governance for your workforce.

Capabilities:

Machine Identities

Discover, control, and govern every nonhuman identity, from secrets to workloads.

Capabilities:

AI Agent Identities

Bring autonomous agents under the same privilege controls as everything else.

Capabilities:

Why privileged access management had to change

Privileged access management was built for a world of administrators, static accounts and quarterly access reviews. That world is gone. Machine identities already outnumber human ones in most enterprises, and autonomous AI agents now request broad permissions across sensitive systems without passing through any of the controls built for people. The result is an attack surface that expands faster than governance can follow.

79 in 100

organizations have adopted AI agents

Less than 10%

have critical controls such as agent registries and authorization

What does Idira cover?

Idira brings privileged access, machine identity and agentic identity security onto a single platform. Most organizations do not need every module on day one. Working out which modules you actually need, and which you can safely leave out, is where an engagement usually starts.

Privileged Access Management

Privileged Access Management is the mature core of Idira, extended beyond administrators to every identity that holds meaningful access. It provides vaulting, session isolation and monitoring, just-in-time elevation, and zero standing privilege across hybrid cloud and on-premises estates. Organizations running CyberArk PAM today are running the same engine under a new name, with an accelerated roadmap behind it.

Agentic AI Security

Agentic AI security controls what autonomous AI agents can access and do. AI agents blend human reasoning with machine speed, and they need broad permissions to be useful, which makes a single compromised agent a master key. Idira Secure AI Agents discovers agents running across SaaS, cloud and developer environments, enriches each one with ownership, purpose and permission context, then brokers access through a dedicated agent identity broker that grants permissions for the duration of a task and revokes them the moment the job completes.

Across the rest of the platform

Secrets Manager

Centralized secrets for applications, pipelines and workloads.

Secrets Hub

Governance and reporting across every vault in the estate.

Identity Governance

Access reviews, certification and joiner-mover- leaver automation.

Identity and Access Management

Workforce authentication and access, including SSO and MFA.

Secure Browser

Isolated browsing for privileged and third-party sessions.

Secure AI Agents

Discovery, brokering and audit for autonomous agents.

How does Accutive Security help?

Buying the platform is the easy part. Most Idira value is lost between procurement and steady state. Accutive Security works across all three stages, and stays engaged after the project team leaves.

01

Select and Procure

We start vendor-neutral. Our team assesses your current identity estate, maps it againstwhat Idira actually does, and tells you which modules you need and which you do not. We then handle the commercial side, structuring licensing so you are not paying for capacity or capability you will never use.

02

Implement and Operationalize

Deployment is not the finish line. We design the architecture, integrate Idira with your existing directory, ITSM, SIEM and CI/CD tooling, then migrate and onboard accounts in a sequence that does not disrupt operations. We build the policies and runbooks your team will actually use, and we train your people to run them.

03

Hypercare and Ongoing Support

The period after go-live is where most identity programs stall. Hypercare gives you direct access to the engineers who built your environment rather than a ticket queue. We resolve issues as they surface, tune policies as real usage patterns emerge, and stay engaged through upgrades, audits and expansion into additional modules.

Part of our Identity Security Center of Excellence

Idira does not operate alone. Privileged access sits alongside certificate lifecycle management, PKI, key management and data protection, and the failure modes cross over constantly. An expired certificate takes down the service your PAM solution is protecting. An unmanaged secret undermines a governance program that looks clean on paper. Since 2009, Accutive Security has built its practice around the whole picture rather than a single product line, which is why clients bring us the problems that sit between vendors. Idira is one part of that practice, not the entirety of it.

NGTS and Certificate Lifecycle Management
Cryptography, PKI and Key Management
Data Protection and
Masking

Why organizations bring us in

Vendor-neutral by default

We will always recommend the best solution for your environment.

Hands-on before you commit

Evaluate real configurations in the Accutive Innovation Lab

Proven track record since 2009

800+ successful cybersecurity projects

5-star average rating

Gartner Peer Insights, Security Consulting Services

Frequently asked questions

Q1: Is Idira the same as CyberArk?
Idira is the Palo Alto Networks identity security platform built on CyberArk technology. Palo Alto Networks announced the rebrand on 12 May 2026, after completing the CyberArk acquisition on 11 February 2026. The underlying technology, architecture and component names are unchanged. Existing CyberArk deployments continue to run.
Q2: Do we have to migrate off CyberArk?
No. There is no forced migration. Palo Alto Networks states that existing customers can continue using the platform as they always have, with the main visible change being branding and design. Where consolidation or migration makes sense for other reasons, that is a decision to make on its own merits.
Q3: What happened to the Venafi certificate products?
The Venafi-derived certificate products did not become part of Idira. They moved into network security under Next-Generation Trust Security, known as NGTS. Idira covers privileged access, secrets management, identity governance and agentic identity security. Certificate lifecycle management and PKI sit under NGTS. Our article on what happened to Venafi, CyberArk and Palo Alto Networks explains the full mapping. Link “our article on what happened to Venafi, CyberArk and Palo Alto Networks” to: https://accutivesecurity.com/what-happened-to-venafi-cyberark-palo-alto-networks/
Q4: What is agentic AI security?
Agentic AI security is the practice of discovering, controlling and auditing the identities of autonomous AI agents. Agents require broad permissions across sensitive resources, which makes each one a potential master key. Idira Secure AI Agents addresses this by discovering agents across SaaS, cloud and developer environments, enforcing just-in-time access through an agent identity broker, and logging every action an agent performs and on whose behalf.
Q5: Can Accutive Security help with Idira licensing and procurement?
Yes. We assess which Idira modules fit your requirements, identify the ones you do not need, and structure the licensing and commercial arrangement accordingly. This work happens before implementation and is typically where the largest cost savings are found.
Q6: What does Hypercare include?
Hypercare provides named engineers who are familiar with your specific deployment, rapid issue triage and resolution, policy tuning as adoption grows, and ongoing support through upgrades, audits and expansion into additional modules. Scope and response targets are agreed per engagement.

Start with a conversation, not a purchase order

Tell us what your identity estate looks like today and what is breaking. We will tell you which parts of Idira are relevant, which are not, and what it would take to operationalize them.






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