SecureAuth Launches Agentic Authority Platform and Names Mark van Oppen Chief Revenue Officer to Lead the Next Era of Identity Security in the Age of AI
Irvine, Calif. — May 19, 2026 — SecureAuth unveiled the Agentic Authority Platform, a real-time zero-trust control layer designed to authorize every action an AI agent attempts, and appointed industry veteran Mark van Oppen as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) to accelerate enterprise adoption. Together, the moves mark a decisive push into agent-first identity security as organizations scale autonomous systems across critical business processes.
AI Agents Are Already Working — Security Must Catch Up
From writing invoices to calling APIs and moving data, AI agents are now operating inside the enterprise—often without adequate oversight. Industry data indicates that 91% of AI agents are over-privileged, 78% of AI deployments lack an audit trail, and 64% of organizations cannot detect shadow agents. The traditional identity model—authenticate at login and trust downstream activity—breaks when the “user” is autonomous and susceptible to prompt injection, goal overreach, or misconfiguration.
“Routeware is scaling AI across our business with the governance to match,” said Jeremy Collins, CEO of Routeware. “When SecureAuth showed us the Agentic Authority Platform, it was an easy decision to move forward. The visibility and control it gives us are exactly what we need to move confidently in the AI era.”
Introducing the Agentic Authority Platform
Built on SecureAuth’s two-decade foundation in identity for customers, workforce, and applications, the Agentic Authority Platform extends zero-trust principles to autonomous agents. Instead of granting standing privileges or assuming trust post-authentication, the platform continuously evaluates every agent action—every API call, tool invocation, and transaction—against identity, policy, and risk in real time. Unsafe or out-of-scope actions are automatically blocked, downscoped, or escalated.
“Authentication tells you who walked in the door,” said Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth. “It tells you nothing about whether the next transaction should happen. The Agentic Authority Platform answers that question continuously, for every action, for every agent, every time.”
What sets it apart
- Real-time, zero-trust control: No standing privileges. Policies enforce the who/what/when/where/how-much of each action. Credentials are federated via a unified vault that supports OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, and more—so agents never directly handle downstream secrets.
- Live visibility: Immediate attribution of agent actions to a responsible human and business purpose. Security teams see what’s happening now, eliminating black-box service accounts and shadow agents.
- Agent Detection and Response (ADR): Baselines, drift and anomaly detection in seconds, with automated deny, revoke, or downscope—adapting proven EDR/ITDR operating models to AI agents.
- Tamperproof audit and compliance: An immutable, identity-anchored record of attempted and completed actions, exportable for regulators and streamable to existing SIEMs—one source of truth unifying control, visibility, detection, and compliance.
While many new entrants stop at mapping agents to tools via an MCP-style gateway, SecureAuth emphasizes continuous, fine-grained authorization and verifiable outcomes across the full agent lifecycle.
Leadership to Scale the Agentic Era
To drive enterprise adoption globally, SecureAuth appointed Mark van Oppen as Chief Revenue Officer. He will lead worldwide sales and marketing, helping large organizations modernize identity for employees, customers, applications, APIs, and AI agents. Van Oppen brings go-to-market rigor and deep technical credibility from leadership roles at IBM, Heptio, VMware, and FusionAuth, spanning cloud, Kubernetes, and identity.
“Mark understands how to scale revenue around infrastructure that customers cannot afford to get wrong. That is exactly what identity has become,” said Mattson. “As SecureAuth leads the market toward zero-trust authority for workforce, customer, and AI agent security, Mark brings the commercial discipline, visionary perspective, and technical fluency to help us turn category leadership into durable growth.”
“The next era of identity will be defined by continuous control, not one-time access decisions,” said van Oppen. “SecureAuth is building for that future at exactly the right moment, and the launch of the Agentic Authority Platform is the clearest proof. I’m excited to help more enterprises adopt a modern identity platform built for technical depth, deployment flexibility, and the realities of AI-driven risk.”
Why It Matters Now
- Autonomy without blind trust: Continuous, context-rich authorization ensures agents operate only within explicit guardrails.
- Operational clarity: Real-time attribution and visibility align security and business stakeholders around who did what, when, and why.
- Measurable assurance: Tamperproof audit trails and SIEM integration provide defensible compliance and faster incident response.
- Future-ready identity: A unified control plane for identity, authorization, behavioral analytics, and agent governance reduces tool sprawl and complexity.
Learn more about the Agentic Authority Platform at www.secureauth.com.
About SecureAuth
SecureAuth is a premier identity company securing customer identity, workforce identity, agentic identity, continuous risk monitoring, and presence authority for leading global enterprises. Founded in 2005, the company protects millions of identities daily across top federal agencies, major financial institutions, healthcare providers, and global retailers. Discover more at secureauth.com.
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