IAM for Agentic AI: 6 Platforms Compared | Pomerium

AI agents are now calling production APIs, querying databases, and invoking tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — often with more standing access than any human employee would ever be granted. Identity and access management (IAM) built for humans logging into dashboards was never designed for this. A new category of platforms has emerged to close the gap, and they take meaningfully different approaches.