Identity security vendors are rapidly expanding beyond authenticating AI agents to governing what they can do after they gain access. New announcements from Delinea and startup Neo highlight growing industry interest in runtime authorization, where tool calls, API requests and privileged actions are evaluated before execution. Delinea extends privileged access to AI agent actionsDelinea is adding runtime authorization for AI agents to its identity security platform. The launch builds on Delinea’s acquisition of StrongDM earlier this year, bringing StrongDM’s runtime authorization capabilities into Delinea’s privileged access management platform. As organizations deploy autonomous software capable of making decisions and interacting with critical systems, runtime authorization is emerging as a foundational layer of AI security.