Omada Acquires EmpowerID to Close the AI Agent Security Gap

 Omada doubles down on agent governance, helping organizations bring ungoverned AI agent identities under control

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Omada A/S ("Omada"), a global leader in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), today announced it has acquired EmpowerID, a pioneer in AI agent governance. The acquisition brings EmpowerID's runtime agent governance capabilities into Omada, strengthening its ability to provide security controls for human, non-human and agent identities. 

Every enterprise now runs software that acts entirely on its own: making decisions, touching sensitive systems and executing tasks thousands of times a day. In most cases, no one in the enterprise is fully certain what that software is allowed to do. AI agents have become the fastest-growing identity population inside the enterprise, but they're also the least governed. The access controls built for human employees simply weren't designed for something that moves, and can go wrong, at machine speed. Together, Omada and EmpowerID change that. Their combined platform lets organizations decide in real time what each agent is permitted to do and lets them stop it the instant it steps outside those boundaries, instead of finding out what happened at the next audit.

The acquisition follows Omada's June announcement of its Agent Governance solution. With this new investment, Omada will deliver:

• Governance for every identity – Human users, applications, workloads and AI agents are managed through the same lifecycle, access and certification services. This creates one record of what an identity is and one decision about what it may do.
• A single view of all identities and access – A continuously maintained view of identities, entitlements and relationships across every connected system feeds governance, authorization and risk evaluation from a single source rather than three separate copies.
• Runtime authorization – Access decisions are made at the moment of the request, for people and for agents, using live risk and governance context, so a change made in review takes effect on the next call rather than the next sync.
• Agentic governance from discovery to control – Discovery of AI agents, their identities, tools and reach; ownership and lifecycle management; certification of what they hold; and runtime control of what they may do, all inside the same fabric that governs human access.
• Continuous compliance evidence – Every grant, decision and review is recorded as evidence at the time it happens, so proof of control is a by-product of the fabric rather than a project assembled before each audit.

Jakob H. Kraglund, CEO, Omada, said: "AI agents are already acting inside enterprise systems faster than most security teams can track. This acquisition means we can tell customers not just what their agents have access to, but we can also stop those agents the moment they step outside the lines – in real time, not after the fact. That's the difference between governing AI and just monitoring it."

EmpowerID CEO and co-founder Patrick Parker will join Omada as chief innovation officer to drive innovation and development of next-generation identity security capabilities and support the integration of EmpowerID's agent governance technology into Omada's platform.

Patrick Parker, CEO, EmpowerID, said: "We built EmpowerID to govern identity as one platform that manages every human and AI agent and proves in real time what each one is allowed to do. With Omada, we continue building on that foundation and bring it to enterprises at a scale we could not reach alone. It's what the AI era demands, and together we can deliver it faster than anyone."

Martin Kuppinger, Distinguished Analyst & Co-Founder, KuppingerCole Analysts, said: "AI agents act at machine speed, and governing them after the fact is not enough. With EmpowerID, Omada adds runtime authorization and security for AI agents to its IGA foundation, extending governance from who is entitled to access to what agents are actually permitted to do, as they do it."

Investment banking company Stephens provided strategic advice to Omada and its shareholders on the transaction.

About Omada

Omada helps organizations around the world govern access across every human, non-human and AI identity. Its identity governance and administration (IGA) platform is highly configurable, deployable in weeks rather than years, and designed to reduce risk while providing clear, audit-ready evidence. Danish-built, Omada gives customers control over how and where the platform runs, with a range of cloud and managed infrastructure options, and who can reach their data. Learn more at https://www.omadaidentity.com.

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