1Password Joins Snowflake to Tackle AI's Next Security Frontier: Trusted Agent Interoperability
The platform adds integrations with 1Password, Okta and other security tools to help enterprises govern agent access and cut runaway AI costs.
- On Tuesday, Snowflake launched the Cortex AI Gateway, a centralized control layer governing how autonomous AI agents access enterprise data, models, and tools from the company's Bozeman headquarters.
- Traditional security models built for human actors operating at human speed fail to secure autonomous agents that combine access across systems. Snowflake Chief Security and Trust Officer Mayank Upadhyay noted these models leave blind spots agents can exploit.
- Alongside the gateway, Snowflake unveiled integrations with 1Password, Aembit, Linx Security, SailPoint, and Saviynt. These identity vendors, typically competing for budgets, formed an unusual coalition to standardize agent access controls and verification.
- The Cortex AI Gateway centralizes access policies, authentication, and audit logging in one place. Chief Business Officer John Torrey stated developers 'need to control what those agents can access and trace every action.'
- Snowflake positions itself as the control plane for the agentic era, not merely as a data warehouse. Upadhyay stated: 'In the agentic era, trust can't be a one-time decision made at login.
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Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs
Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agents — including those built by competitors like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor — access enterprise data, tools, and models. Alongside the gateway, the company unveiled a first wave of security integrations with 1Password, Aembit, Linx Security, SailPoint, and Saviynt, an unusual coalition of identity vendors who often compete with one a…
Snowflake debuts Cortex AI Gateway to govern and monitor enterprise AI agents
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