Gartner Just Created the Guardian Agents Market. Here Is What It Means for Agent Identity.

Gartner published its first-ever Market Guide for Guardian Agents yesterday. Orchid Security was named a Representative Vendor. The category did not exist six months ago. This matters because it is the first time an analyst firm has formally defined a market around securing AI agent identity and access. What Gartner Says From the market guide: "AI agents introduce new risks that outpace human review, yet most enterprises are unprepared to manage them due to fragmented organizational structures and ongoing challenges with discovery." The guide identifies four key requirements: Human Operator Attribution — every agent must map to a responsible human owner Activity Audit — log, monitor, and report on all agent activity Posture Management — centralized identities, strong auth, least privilege Runtime Inspection — enforce policy during live agent interactions What Orchid Built Orchid's five principles map directly to Gartner's requirements: Human-to-Agent Attribution — classify every agent,