ConductorOne announced AI Access Management on March 19, a new product extension that extends its identity governance platform to cover AI tools, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) connections across the enterprise. The announcement came ahead of RSAC 2026 in San Francisco.

The core problem ConductorOne is addressing is shadow AI proliferation. According to the company, 75% of knowledge workers use AI tools today, and 78% bring their own, creating unmanaged risk across the enterprise. Meanwhile, only 18% of employees know their company’s AI policy. The result: employees route around slow procurement and IT processes, exposing the organization to uncontrolled data access by AI tools and agents.

ConductorOne’s approach is to make the governed path faster than the ungoverned one. End users can request and receive access to AI tools in under 60 seconds through self-service provisioning, while IT and security teams retain full visibility and policy control over every tool call, agent action, and MCP connection.

“Every company is transforming into an AI-native business,” said Alex Bovee, CEO and co-founder of ConductorOne. “Boards are demanding AI adoption. CIOs and CISOs are left without the capabilities to drive it securely. ConductorOne closes that gap.”

Key capabilities include fine-grained tool call authorization, where every AI tool call is authenticated, permission-checked, and logged with full audit context. AI agents are treated as first-class identities with their own credentials, lifecycle states, and ownership. Service credentials are vaulted centrally with automatic rotation and never exposed to end users. The platform includes more than 3,000 hosted MCP servers built on ConductorOne’s existing connector ecosystem, giving enterprises governed access to virtually any application with an API.

The platform also generates real-time audit logs for every tool call with full identity context, enabling SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA evidence generation and supporting access certification workflows.

AI Access Management is currently in early preview with select customers. ConductorOne counts DigitalOcean, Instacart, Ramp, and Zscaler among its existing enterprise users.