NewCore Wins 2026 Cyber Top Innovator for Bringing Human Accountability to AI Agents

NewCore, the agentic identity company, today announced that it has been recognized in the Enterprise Security Tech Cyber Top Innovations Awards for its approach to securing and governing an increasingly agentic workforce. The award highlights NewCore Agent Guardian, which brings governance and accountability to AI agents.

AI agents are entering the workforce at a growing pace. They operate with enterprise privileges, access sensitive applications and data, and take action across multiple systems, often without a person overseeing each step. Identity was already the primary attack vector before agents arrived. Now enterprises must answer harder questions: which agents are running, what each one is allowed to do, how their actions are controlled, and who is accountable when they act? Traditional identity platforms were never designed for this reality.

Enterprise Security Tech cited NewCore for governing AI agents with the same accountability and security controls enterprises already apply to their people. NewCore treats every agent as a first-class identity, right alongside humans, governed through one identity core.

“AI agents are multiplying faster than most enterprises can govern them, and every agent needs the same accountability we expect from people. No security team can review everything an agent does, and none should have to. Human judgment belongs on the sensitive actions, with policy handling the rest. NewCore enforces policy-based guardrails, eliminates standing secrets, and scopes every permission to a specific task. For the most sensitive actions, it puts human review and approval literally in the palm of your hand. Thank you to Enterprise Security Tech for recognizing this approach.”

Every Agent Seen, Known, and Controlled

Traditional identity systems were designed primarily around human users and applications operating with relatively predictable permissions. Autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents introduce a different challenge. They can initiate actions, interact with multiple systems, and make decisions at machine speed, often without a person overseeing each step.

NewCore governs what agents can do, not just whether they can connect to a system. Key capabilities include:

• An identity and an owner for every agent. Each AI agent receives its own identity, a defined human owner, scoped permissions, and a managed lifecycle. A live identity graph discovers agents, accounts, applications, and the access relationships between them.
• Just-in-time, least-privilege credentials. Agents receive narrowly scoped, short-lived credentials for authorized tasks, eliminating broad standing access.
• Runtime policy on every tool call. Policies evaluate each tool call as it happens, permitting routine activity, blocking prohibited actions, and preventing agents from exceeding the authority delegated to them. Natural-language policy creation simplifies administration and identifies conflicts before policies are deployed.
• Biometric human approval for high-risk actions. When an agent attempts a sensitive operation, its owner receives an approval request on their mobile device and confirms or denies it with biometric verification.
• Immutable accountability. Audit trails connect every agent action to its responsible owner, the policy applied, and the approval decision, establishing exactly who authorized what, when, and why.
• Immediate revocation. Security teams can remove an agent's access the moment its activity falls outside established boundaries or is no longer required.

These capabilities are delivered through NewCore's unified identity platform, which brings authentication, authorization, security, and governance for human and agent identities into a single architecture. It can be deployed alongside an enterprise’s current identity platform.

The Enterprise Security Tech recognition highlights the growing importance of identity security as organizations deploy AI agents that do more than assist employees. By governing what agents can do, not just whether they can connect to a system, NewCore helps enterprises expand productivity while retaining the security controls and accountability required for today's agentic workforce.

Read the award announcement from Enterprise Security Tech Cyber Top Innovations Awards.