Descope Agentic Identity Control Plane Bridges the Security Gap for AI Agents and MCP Environments
Descope, the drag and drop external IAM platform, is debuting the Agentic Identity Control Plane, a suite of capabilities designed to infuse AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients/servers with policy-based governance, auditing, and identity and lifecycle management. Helping to reduce risk and uncertainty, Agentic Identity Control Plane—which builds off Descope’s Agentic Identity Hub—forwards Descope’s position as the identity provider for AI agents.
Descope emphasizes identity security as the “missing piece in the AI and MCP puzzle,” reeling in AI agents as they execute tasks. According to the Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey, 56% of developers reported having security and privacy concerns when using AI agents—and these fears aren’t unwarranted. Recently, a Replit agent deleted a company’s live production database by initiating unauthorized commands, revealing a crucial gap between agentic AI and effective security.
Agentic Identity Control Plane allows enterprises to embrace agentic AI without uncertainty or risk by enabling the enforcement of identity security guardrails. Whether used by internal employees or external users connecting to their products, Agentic Identity Control Plane offers enterprises with AI agents and MCP ecosystems:
- Scope-based access control via a policy engine that tightly controls how agents and MCP clients/servers access proprietary resources, enabling agents to be restricted to certain “scopes,” also available for third-party tools
- Enterprise-grade monitoring and auditing capabilities that drive visibility into the AI agent risk surface, highlighting access control errors and misconfiguration and potential rogue AI agents before the damage is done
- End-to-end identity lifecycle management for AI agents, including dynamic and static AI agent registration, configurable user consent flows, granular authorization scopes, token management and storage, and visibility into how AI agent identities/human identities are linked
“No CISO wants to block the adoption of agentic AI and MCP at their company, but they are taking on an increased risk responsibility with every new AI agent or MCP server created within their organization or connecting with their products,” said Slavik Markovich, co-founder and CEO of Descope. “The Agentic Identity Control Plane delivers easy to use and comprehensive policy control and monitoring tools that security teams need for secure, scalable AI adoption.”
To learn more about Descope, please visit https://www.descope.com/.