Denver-based Ping Identity, which secures digital identities for the world’s largest enterprises, has brought in a new artificial intelligence framework designed to close the trust challenges created by the growth of autonomous AI agents in the enterprise, along with AI-powered assistants that boost administrator productivity. The company’s new framework is designed to ensure that verifiable trust becomes a foundation of every digital interaction, in order to help enterprises unlock frictionless convenience, strengthen governance, and open new channels for growth while using AI technology.
From deepfakes to digital wallets, Peter Barker, Ping’s Chief Product Officer, explored how verified identity is becoming the foundation of authentic experiences in the AI era.
“Trust isn’t passive,” Barker said. “It’s designed, defended, and built for what’s next.”
The idea, Barker said, is to ensure that autonomous agents are safeguarded while keeping humans in control.
“We can no longer implicitly trust what we see, hear, or receive digitally,” he said. “As AI becomes more embedded in the enterprise, humans and AI agents must work together seamlessly — with security and verification at the forefront. Our AI solutions accelerate time to value by making interactions more convenient, ensuring continuous trust for a more resilient future.”
The increase in AI-generated content and autonomous agents has created uncertainties about the authenticity of digital interactions. Barker highlighted the concerns:
“At Ping, we know you rely on us to provide trusted mission-critical solutions,” Barker said. “We take that role very seriously and are dedicated to ensuring that our customers’ best interests are at the heart of every decision we make.”
As businesses begin to rely on agents to serve consumers, Ping’s AI framework will ensure those agents can be trusted, managed, and scaled with confidence. The vision is to help enterprises reduce risk, maintain oversight, and unlock new opportunities by establishing the foundations of agent trust—including verifying identity, managing access, and governing agent lifecycles. The framework will also support issuing unique credentials, distinguishing legitimate from malicious activity, and keeping humans in control with approval workflows.
For instance, a month ago Ping Identity announced its new Just-in-time Privileged Access capabilities within the Ping Identity Platform, offering comprehensive capabilities across all three categories of identity: Access Management (AM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and Privileged Access Management (PAM).
“As enterprises embrace multi-cloud strategies, the scale and complexity of cloud permissions are expanding faster than ever. Traditional, vault-based PAM solutions can’t keep up with today’s dynamic business needs,” Barker said. “With the addition of PAM capabilities, we’re empowering organizations to adopt just-in-time privileged access and solve a broader set of identity and security challenges – all within a unified platform.”
With these safeguards, enterprises can confidently capture the efficiency and revenue potential of AI agents—while preserving trust that digital interactions demand. As businesses begin to rely on agents to serve consumers, Ping’s AI framework will ensure those agents can be trusted, managed, and scaled with confidence. The vision is to help enterprises reduce risk, maintain oversight, and unlock new opportunities by establishing the foundations of agent trust—including verifying identity, managing access, and governing agent lifecycles. The framework will also support issuing unique credentials, distinguishing legitimate from malicious activity, and keeping humans in control with approval workflows.
With these safeguards, enterprises can confidently capture the efficiency and revenue potential of AI agents—while preserving trust that digital interactions demand.
AI assistants are transforming industries by streamlining workflows and accelerating decision-making. Ping is bringing that same power to the Ping Identity Platform to help administrators navigate complex identity environments and make smarter, faster decisions. From contextual help and workflow troubleshooting to journey orchestration guidance, these assistants reduce friction and unlock new levels of efficiency.
As AI rapidly transforms the enterprise, identity is becoming the foundation of trust between humans and machines. By securing AI agents, simplifying access control, and streamlining workflows, Ping Identity is establishing identity as the foundation of enterprise trust in the AI era—ensuring innovation can scale without sacrificing security or experience.
In parallel to securing AI agents, Ping Identity is introducing AI-powered assistants for system administrators. These assistants, integrated into the Ping Identity Platform, are intended to help administrators navigate increasingly complex identity management environments. The assistants offer contextual help, assist in troubleshooting workflows, and provide guidance on orchestrating various processes, thereby reducing operational friction and helping administrators make quicker, more informed decisions.
Ping also just announced new security solutions from their vendor partners, also available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. Collaborating across cybersecurity, including security operations, application and agent security, identity and data protection, Ping partners are extending the reach of AI-driven defense. They’re actively developing and integrating solutions that use Ping’s AI-native tools and platforms, and enabling end-to-end security throughout the entire AI lifecycle, from model to agent development.
Apiiro has introduced its AutoFix AI Agent to streamline developer workflows, integrating with Gemini Code Assist to automatically generate remediated code.
Broadcom has integrated Gemini across its Symantec Security products for threat detection, incident summarization, prediction, natural language query and policy summarization.
CrowdStrike has enhanced security by embedding AI into its Falcon platform, and integrating platform data with Google Security Operations and Google Agentspace. AI-enhanced Falcon can help customers naturally converse with all of their security data, build AI agents that reduce mean time to detect and mean time to respond and accelerate threat response.
Exabeam has provided unified visibility into both human and agent activity by applying behavioral analytics to data from Google Agentspace and Model Armor.
Fortinet has enhanced application security with FortiWeb, which can protect applications from intentional attacks while also incorporating Data Loss Prevention to safeguard personally identifiable information used in AI applications.
F5 has worked to address critical areas of API security for generative AI applications and large language models, including prompt injection and API sprawl, with its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP).
Menlo Security has offered gen AI analysis enabled by Gemini with its HEAT Shield AI. This technology expands protection against social engineering and brand impersonation attacks that target users in the browser.
Netskope has introduced DLP On Demand to expand data-loss prevention directly to AI-enabled applications. Integrated into Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Gemini ecosystem, DLP On Demand offers sensitive data protection, can prevent data leakage, and lets customers safely adopt AI without compromising their security or compliance posture.
Palo Alto Networks has designed Prisma AIRS to protect AI and agentic workloads on Google Cloud. With Cloud WAN, Prisma Access can provide high-bandwidth and performant connectivity to AI and other cloud-based applications.
Transmit Security has used Google Cloud’s AI in Mosaic platform to deliver identity and fraud prevention for consumer AI agents. It can help enterprises improve the human–agent relationship across the full identity lifecycle, from login to high-risk account activity.
Wiz has added support for Gemini Code Assist, tackling the critical gap between AI-enabled development workflows and real-time security intelligence.
In addition, to make it easier to discover and deploy agentic tools, Ping has added the new Agent Tools category in the Google Cloud Marketplace.
In conclusion, by bringing together secure AI agent management, streamlined access control, and administrative support, Ping Identity believes that its new framework will become a standard for enterprise trust in the AI era. The company views establishing trust not as a barrier, but as an enabler of ongoing digital transformation.