Prove Identity Launches Unified Platform for AI Agent Trust as Survey Finds 82% of Enterprises Have Unknown Agents Running

Prove Identity launched a unified platform on April 22 that turns identity verification into a continuous process for humans, businesses, and AI agents. The Prove Identity Platform combines authentication, identity monitoring, and fraud prevention into a single architecture designed to serve as a trust layer for autonomous agent workflows, according to Prove’s announcement, Help Net Security, and ID Tech Wire.

The Problem: Shadow Agents

The launch arrives alongside new data from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) that quantifies the agent trust gap. A CSA report, commissioned by Token Security and cited by Biometric Update, found that 82% of organizations have unknown AI agents running in their IT infrastructure. Nearly two in three have experienced agent-related incidents in the past 12 months. Although 68% of respondents report high confidence in their visibility into AI agents, the actual number of shadow agents discovered contradicts that confidence.

“AI agents are outpacing the identity systems meant to secure and control them, and it’s already showing up in unknown agents and real incidents in the enterprise,” said Itamar Apelblat, CEO of Token Security, in Biometric Update. “These agents are not just another workload. They are a new type of identity and legacy controls don’t work.”

The CSA report identifies “retirement debt” as a specific risk: agents that linger past their intended use, retaining permissions and credentials that create ongoing exposure.

The Platform

The Prove Identity Platform has three components: Prove Key Management for adaptive authentication, Prove Identity Manager for proactive identity monitoring and real-time alerts on lifecycle events, and Prove Global Fraud Policy for fraud protection using network intelligence, according to Prove’s blog.

For agentic AI specifically, Prove’s evolving agentic AI suite embeds cryptographically signed consent directly into an identity token that travels with every agent action. The system is built on open protocols already integrated across AI frameworks from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Salesforce, per Biometric Update.

“AI can fabricate a face or clone a voice, but it cannot replicate a decade of real digital behavior,” said Rodger Desai, CEO of Prove, in the announcement. Prove claims its platform is built on 12 years of authenticated identity history covering 90% of the world’s digitally active adults.

ID Tech Wire noted that Prove previously launched its Verified Agent solution in October 2025 focused on agentic commerce. The April 2026 platform is a broader unification of the company’s full product portfolio.

The Emerging Category

Prove joins a growing field of companies building identity and trust infrastructure specifically for autonomous agents. Richard Crone, CEO of Crone Consulting, estimates that by 2030 there will be “4 to 40 AI agents acting on behalf of every human on the planet,” according to Biometric Update. Visa has named Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity as agentic commerce partners. OpenAI and Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol in September 2025.

For enterprises deploying autonomous agents at scale, the CSA’s finding that 82% already have unknown agents in their infrastructure makes the case that agent identity and trust verification is not a future problem. It is a current one.