Token Security vs Cyera Identity for an agent inventory versus a short-lived task identity
Both inventory non-human identities and AI agents, assign owners, and name a path off standing access. Token Security’s named surface is the inventory and the Token AI Agent. Cyera Identity’s named surface is a lifecycle policy plus a short-lived identity for each approved agent task.
On 3 September 2026 Cyera completed the acquisition of Oasis Security. The same release says that platform will operate as Cyera Identity. Token Security is a separate company. Cyera did not buy Token.
Token Security’s announcement of 10 July 2025 names an AI Discovery Engine for non-human identities and the Token AI Agent. The current product page for that agent says it queries NHI Inventory, NHI Security Posture Management, Lifecycle Management, Secrets, and Threat Detection and Response. The Cyera Identity page, opened the same day as this update, names an inventory of service accounts, API keys, tokens, and AI agents, lifecycle policies from creation to retirement, and a short-lived identity for each agent task after the user approves it. Broader NHI shortlists live under non-human identity tools.
| Primary use case | Inventory of AI agents and non-human identities, plus natural-language queries across inventory, posture, lifecycle, secrets, and threat detection | Inventory of non-human identities and AI agents, lifecycle policies, and a short-lived identity for each approved agent task |
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| Discovery named on the page | AI Discovery Engine: NHIs and workloads consuming AI services, AI connectors, and which agents use which identities. The discover page adds credential correlation and prints 1,000+ integrations | Inventory of every service account, API key, token, and AI agent across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and AI platforms, including shadow AI and MCP servers, tied to owner, usage, and data sensitivity |
| Lifecycle named on the page | Lifecycle use-case page: auto-assign ownership, rotate keys, transition to short-term credentials, and de-provision NHIs. The AI Agent can return de-provisioning scripts for inactive identities | Policies: owner and purpose at creation, rotation on a schedule, re-certification by the owner, retirement when unused, through vaults and identity providers already in place |
| Agent access named on the page | Least privilege and just-in-time access on the lifecycle use-case page. A per-task user-approval step was not found in this research | Each agent request is checked against access policy. The user approves in plain language. The task runs on a short-lived least-privilege identity that is removed when the work is done |
| How it connects | Discover page: automated, continuous, and environment-wide, without agents or code instrumentation | Identity page: agentless API connectors for inventory and ownership. Enforcement uses identity providers, cloud platforms, vaults, and the gateway agents already use |
| License/pricing | No public dollar price was found in this research | No public dollar price was found in this research |
That sentence names Token Security and pairs visibility with policy enforcement. It does not name a per-task approval step. Cyera Identity’s page does.
Pages opened 3 Oct 2026 were Token Security’s 10 July 2025 announcement, the discover page, the NHI lifecycle use-case page, and the Token AI Agent product page, plus Cyera’s 3 September 2026 closing release and the Cyera Identity page. This is not a hands-on benchmark.
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Editions and pricing
Neither product page opened on 3 Oct 2026 printed a dollar amount, a unit, a billing period, or a commitment. Do not treat a missing price as a cheaper plan.
| How you buy it now | Demo request on token.security. No public package names were on the pages opened | Sold as Cyera Identity inside Cyera’s platform. No public package names were on the identity page |
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| Public price (3 Oct 2026) | Not found in this research. No currency, unit, period, or commitment to record | Not found in this research. No currency, unit, period, or commitment to record |
| What a quote has to name | Whether AI Discovery Engine, the Token AI Agent, and lifecycle actions (rotation, de-provision) are in the same order | Whether lifecycle policies and the short-lived task identity are in the Cyera Identity order, separate from Cyera’s data-security modules |
Discovery
| What gets inventoried | Discover page: autonomous agents, copilots, custom GPTs, MCP servers, embedded AI in SaaS, and LLM applications. Correlation covers API keys, OAuth tokens, cloud IAM roles, service accounts, vault-managed and hardcoded secrets, and short-lived and long-lived credentials | Identity page: service accounts, API keys, tokens, and AI agents, plus the identities, keys, and MCP servers those agents depend on, including shadow AI and unapproved vendors |
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| Context attached to an identity | Announcement: which agents use which human and non-human identities. Discover page: ownership attribution and orphaned credentials. The AI Agent queries ownership, permissions, and usage | Who or what relies on the identity, what it can access, how sensitive that data is, and who is accountable. Ownership can start from suggested matches and stay current through attestation campaigns |
| Integration figure printed on the page | The discover page prints 1,000+ enterprise-wide integrations and names AI platforms, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD, identity providers, PAM, AppSec, SIEM, and CNAPP | A connector total was not printed on the Cyera Identity page opened 3 Oct 2026 |
| What the operator can ask | Token AI Agent examples include who owns a service account, which identities have not rotated secrets in 90 days, and a script for inactive identities | A conversational query layer over the identity inventory was not found in this research on the Cyera Identity page |
If the week is spent finding agents and the credentials they use, both pages describe that inventory. The Token pages also name the AI Discovery Engine and a query across five platform layers. The Cyera Identity page also ties each identity to data sensitivity. A missing sentence on one page is not a missing capability.
Lifecycle and agent access
| From creation to retirement | Assign ownership, rotate credentials, retire orphaned agents, and de-provision NHIs. The lifecycle page also says identities can be tied to infrastructure-as-code | Provision with an owner, a justification, and approval. Attest when access drifts. Decommission unused or overprivileged identities in one click or by rule. Secrets rotate on demand or on a schedule, and the old secret is retired only after the new one is in use |
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| Standing access | Transition to short-term credentials, and remediate excessive permissions. The page names just-in-time access and does not describe a user approval in plain language before each task | Do not leave the agent on a standing grant. Issue a short-lived identity scoped to that task, with the user’s approval, and remove it when the work is done. The page also says mass exports and writes to production can be blocked |
| Where the control runs | Not found in this research as a named vault or identity-provider enforcement path on the lifecycle page. Remediation on the AI Agent page includes scripts, CLI commands, and tickets | Lifecycle steps run through the vaults and identity providers already in place. The page says Cyera Identity does not replace the vault and does not store the secrets |
| Audit names printed | A named framework list for the lifecycle was not found in this research on the Token pages opened | The lifecycle section names OWASP NHI Top 10, PCI DSS 4.0, and NIST 800-53 |
Where they overlap
Both inventory non-human identities and AI agents, including shadow AI and MCP servers. Both assign an owner. Both name least privilege and a move away from long-lived access: Token names short-term credentials and de-provisioning, and Cyera Identity names a short-lived identity removed at the end of the task. Both say discovery can run without installing an agent. An RFP that only says “NHI and AI agents” will get two overlapping answers.
The written difference is the control each page spells out. Token names the AI Discovery Engine and the Token AI Agent querying inventory, posture, lifecycle management, secrets, and threat detection, including a de-provisioning script. Cyera Identity names a lifecycle policy (owner, purpose, scheduled rotation, owner re-certification, retirement) and a user-approved short-lived identity per task. A step that appears on only one of those pages stays unknown for the other.
When to use both
These are two control planes for the same non-human identities. Running both means an owner and a rotation can be recorded in one place and a task grant issued in the other. Pick the product that will perform the action you need next week. A second inventory that does not write the rotation or the task grant is a second list, not a second control.
Choose Token Security when the work is the inventory the discover page describes and the Token AI Agent queries across inventory, posture, lifecycle management, secrets, and threat detection. Choose Cyera Identity when the work is the lifecycle policy and the short-lived, user-approved task identity on the Cyera Identity page. Confirm either action on the order. No public dollar price was found for either product on 3 Oct 2026.
FAQs
Is Cyera Identity the same company as Token Security?
No. Token Security still sells Token Security. Cyera Identity is the identity product inside Cyera. The 3 September 2026 release is Cyera’s acquisition, not a purchase of Token.
Do both products discover AI agents?
Yes, on the pages opened 3 Oct 2026. Token’s discover page and 10 July 2025 announcement name that inventory. The Cyera Identity page names it too, including shadow AI and MCP servers.
Do both products issue a short-lived identity per agent task?
Cyera Identity’s page says yes: user approval, a short-lived least-privilege identity, removed when the work is done. Token’s lifecycle page says transition to short-term credentials, just-in-time access, and de-provisioning. A per-task approval step was not found in this research on the Token pages. That is unknown, not a claim that Token cannot do it.
What public prices were checkable?
None. No currency, unit, period, or commitment was printed on the Token pages or the Cyera Identity page opened 3 Oct 2026.
Is this a hands-on test?
No. The comparison uses the vendor pages opened 3 Oct 2026. Nobody installed either product.
