AppViewX buys Eos to secure machine & AI agent identities

AppViewX has acquired Eos, which develops identity controls for AI agents and autonomous workloads, and has appointed Eos Co-founder Archit Lohokare as Chief Executive Officer.

The deal combines AppViewX's machine identity management products with Eos's governance and privileged access controls for AI agents. Together, the companies are positioning the offering around identity security for non-human users, including machines, software workloads, and AI-driven systems in enterprise environments.

Dino DiMarino has stepped down as AppViewX CEO. Lohokare takes over after leading Eos and holding senior roles at CyberArk, where he worked on workforce and endpoint security.

"AI agents are increasingly acting with autonomy inside the enterprise, with privileged access to data, applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments," said Archit Lohokare, chief executive officer of AppViewX. "Identity is the control plane for this new era. As organizations rapidly deploy AI agents, they need a unified governance and risk layer that secures machines and AI agents with consistent visibility, policy, and enforcement. By combining AppViewX's leadership in machine identity with Eos's AI-native capabilities, we are building the next-generation platform enterprises need to innovate confidently and securely at AI scale."

Product scope

Machine identities underpin many automated processes in modern IT. They include certificates, keys, and credentials tied to devices, applications, and services rather than human users. Managing them has grown more complex as organisations adopt cloud infrastructure, microservices, and automated software delivery.

AppViewX is known for certificate lifecycle management and public key infrastructure tooling. It also sells code-signing and SSH access products and highlights its work on post-quantum cryptography, which aims to prepare security systems for future cryptographic risks.

Eos describes its product as an "AI-native Identity Control Plane" for AI agents and autonomous workloads, focused on visibility, governance, and privileged access control. Privileged access governs who or what can take high-risk actions, such as accessing sensitive databases or changing infrastructure settings.

Technology focus

The acquisition reflects a broader shift in how organisations think about identity. Security teams have spent years building governance around human logins, but a growing share of enterprise access now comes from non-human entities such as service accounts, containers, and software agents.

AI agents add another layer of concern. They can act on prompts, tool access, and internal workflows, generate new tasks, and trigger automated processes. This can increase the volume and complexity of identities and permissions that organisations must monitor and control.

In the announcement, AppViewX described identity as a central control point for AI-driven activity and pitched the combined platform as a way to apply consistent policy and enforcement across machines and AI agents.

Executive changes

AppViewX also named Kashyap Ivaturi, Eos Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, will still be joining as Chief Technology Officer. Ivaturi previously led engineering teams at CyberArk and ServiceNow and will oversee product development and the company's "AI-native roadmap".

Madhu Venkatarajan, AppViewX's current CTO, will become Chief Engineering Officer and general manager of India operations. AppViewX has development centres in Coimbatore and Bangalore, as well as a presence in Boston.

Investor Haveli Investments, which backs AppViewX, said the acquisition supports a broader platform strategy spanning machines, AI workloads, and autonomous agents.

"As organizations scale AI agents and autonomous workloads, the identity-driven attack surface expands dramatically," said Ian Loring, Senior Managing Director and Executive Chair at Haveli Investments. "AppViewX has established leadership in machine identity management, and the addition of Eos accelerates its evolution into a unified platform that governs machines, AI workloads, and autonomous agents. We are confident that this combination, in addition to Archit's and Kashyap's leadership of the new company, will position AppViewX for long-term category leadership and durable growth."

Customer view

AppViewX cited customer interest in applying lifecycle governance and privileged access controls to AI agents, positioning the combined approach as a way to monitor, audit, and manage how these agents interact with sensitive systems.

"AI agents are a new identity group, and their rapid proliferation creates new risks for the enterprise," said John Barrow, Chief Information Security Officer at JB Poindexter. "These agents often behave non-deterministically. To reduce risk, we must monitor, audit, and control their privileged access to sensitive data and systems and ensure their lifecycle is automated and governed. I'm excited to see AppViewX and Eos come together. Eos's AI agent Identity Security platform combined with AppViewX's Machine Identity Security platform positions AppViewX as the leader in Machine and AI Agent Identity Security."

AppViewX plans to discuss the combined platform and its direction at the RSA Conference, with Lohokare and Ivaturi appearing alongside Chief Product Officer Paul Trulove and Chief Operating Officer Stephen Tarleton.