- Entrust launched its Agentic AI Trust Accelerator to help enterprises build the identity, authorization, and governance infrastructure needed to deploy autonomous AI agents in production.
- The program focuses on identity, authorization, cryptographic assurance, and accountability to ensure AI agents can be authenticated, governed, and audited.
- As banks increasingly explore agentic AI for sensitive tasks and transactions, trust infrastructure is becoming a critical requirement for enterprise adoption.
Identity solutions company Entrust unveiled its Agentic AI Trust Accelerator, a program that will help firms build the identity and trust infrastructure needed to move autonomous AI projects from pilot to production.
Entrust’s new tool helps bridge the gap between the utility of AI agents and the lack of formal governance around them. AI agents notoriously lack the necessary infrastructure to ensure AI agents are who they say they are, to verify that the person behind the agent is who they say they are, and to authenticate the relationship between the person and the bot. Additionally, organizations need to know who authorized the agent, what it is allowed to do, and how its actions can be proven after the fact.
“AI agents are advancing faster than the trust infrastructure needed to govern them,” said Entrust COO Anudeep Parhar. “Enterprises need to be able to trust autonomous actions across business processes, partners, and systems. Whether organizations are experimenting with AI agents, deploying initial use cases, or preparing for broader adoption, they need a trust foundation that can scale with them. The Agentic AI Trust Accelerator brings together customers and partners to develop practical approaches for identity, authorization, cryptographic trust, and accountability that work with their existing platforms. We call this the trust plane for autonomous AI.”
Founded in 1994 as Entrust Datacard, the Texas-based company offers fraud solutions built around identity to help its customers in over 150 countries proactively verify customer identity, secure connections, and fight fraud and stay compliant by using ongoing monitoring. The new Accelerator program leverages Entrust’s identity and cryptographic security capabilities to help enterprises confidently use AI agents to enhance their operations. The tools help organizations verify identity and proof of action across systems, partners, and workflows.
The Agentic AI Trust Accelerator program centers on four core pillars: identity, authorization, cryptographic assurance, and accountability. The identity component verifies both human users and AI agents while ensuring every agent action can be traced back to a responsible individual. Authorization limits agents to approved roles, policies, and permissions, with human oversight built in when needed. Cryptographic assurance secures agent operations through capabilities such as digital signing, while accountability provides verifiable records of agent actions to support compliance, audits, and regulatory requirements.
Entrust’s Accelerator program addresses a growing need for agent authentication. As organizations move beyond AI assistants to autonomous agents capable of initiating transactions, accessing sensitive data, and making decisions with limited human intervention, identity and authorization are becoming necessary infrastructure. For banks in particular, the ability to verify who is taking an action and to produce an auditable record of that activity will likely become a prerequisite for deploying agentic AI at scale.
“Agentic AI will reshape how enterprises operate, but trust will determine how quickly organizations can move from experimentation to production,” said Entrust CEO Tony Ball. “Entrust is helping customers build the identity, authorization, and cryptographic foundations required for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments.”
At launch, Entrust is opening the Accelerator program to a limited number of customers, banks, and partners.
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