ServiceNow has announced its intent to acquire Veza, which will extend the capabilities of ServiceNow’s Security and Risk portfolios into Identity Security.

This will enable organisations to understand and control who and what has access to their critical data, applications, systems, and AI artefacts.

As businesses take advantage of autonomous capabilities made possible through agentic AI, Veza and ServiceNow will enable end-to-end identity security rooted in the principle of least privilege that significantly reduces enterprise risk.

Modern enterprises must manage a diverse array of identities, including employees, partners, systems, applications, devices, and increasingly, autonomous AI agents.

As threat actors adopt agentic AI to orchestrate ever more sophisticated attacks, enterprises need strong identity and access controls and governance to ensure permissions remain tightly aligned with evolving roles, regulatory requirements, and advancing technologies.

Veza’s modern, unified, AI-native approach is powered by its patented Access Graph, which maps and analyses access relationships across human, machine, and AI identities, providing an end-to-end access visibility and risk control platform for all types of identity.

This foundation embeds governance into every layer of identity and access management, giving security teams granular visibility and control to manage complexity with confidence and to put AI to work securely across every corner of their business.

“In the era of agentic AI, every identity — human, AI agent, or machine — is a force for enterprise impact. It’s only when you have continuous visibility into each identity’s permissions that you can trust it,” said Amit Zavery, president, chief operating officer, and chief product officer at ServiceNow. “By combining Veza’s industry-first Access Graph with ServiceNow’s AI Control Tower and agentic workflows, we can give customers a true single pane of glass, with control of every identity in their organisation.

“Together, we’ll empower CISOs and security teams to make safer access decisions that protect their businesses, and to defend their high-value data assets from AI-powered attacks.”

“Veza was built to make identity security transparent, scalable, and effective for every organisation,” said Tarun Thakur, CEO of Veza. “With ServiceNow, we will help customers embrace AI with greater confidence.

“Together, we can turn identity governance and identity security into a strategic advantage by giving organisations clear, integrated control over every type of identity — whether it belongs to a person, a machine, or an AI agent.”

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