Astrix Security vs Entro Security

The honest comparison

Astrix Security and Entro Security attack the same blind spot: organizations hold far more non-human identities, service accounts, API keys, OAuth grants, and now AI agents, than human ones, and almost nobody can say where they all are. Both discover and risk-score them. Both score 4.0 overall in our rubric and tie on seven of ten dimensions, including governance and audit, which is the dimension this category exists for.

One fact now overrides the matrix, and it applies to both sides of it. Cisco completed its acquisition of Astrix on 29 June 2026, according to the update on Cisco's own announcement, and Astrix's site states that it is part of Cisco and ended standalone sales of new licenses effective 30 June 2026, with existing customers continuing under current agreements. SailPoint closed its own acquisition of Entro on the same day, 29 June 2026, on undisclosed terms, and entro.security now carries a SailPoint copyright notice. Our profiles of both still record private ownership; we have left those lines as written rather than editing them from a comparison page.

The two deals are not equivalent for a buyer. Astrix is no longer sold standalone to new customers. SailPoint says Entro's non-human identity and credentials security products are available now to SailPoint customers as standalone offerings while native platform integration continues, so what Entro lost is independence, not availability.

On substance the gap between the products is narrow. Entro's angle is secrets: it maps which non-human identity consumes which secret and where, which turns a list of findings into a cleanup plan, and it scores higher on authorization and deployment flexibility. Astrix scores higher on support and ecosystem, and its discovery breadth across SaaS, cloud, and AI platforms is genuinely wide. Both are young, both are advisory more than enforcing, and both are quote-priced with nothing published. Our assessment is that with seven dimensions tied and both companies absorbed on the same day, this decision now turns on which platform you are standardizing on, a Cisco security estate or SailPoint identity governance, rather than on the products.

When Astrix Security wins

• You are an existing customer under a current agreement and continuity through the Cisco integration is the plan
• Cisco is already your security platform, and taking non-human identity discovery through that estate is worth waiting for the integration
• Breadth of discovery across many SaaS and cloud systems is the requirement, and you want the wider connector story
• Vendor support depth matters, which is the one dimension where Astrix out-scores Entro

When Entro Security wins

• You are buying rather than inheriting, and Entro is still sold as a standalone offering while Astrix is not
• Untangling which service account uses which secret is the actual work, and identity-to-secret lineage is the differentiator
• You want the option we score higher on authorization and on deployment flexibility
• SailPoint already runs your identity governance, and keeping non-human identity discovery inside that estate has value

Pricing

Neither publishes pricing and both score 2.5 on pricing transparency, so expect a sales-led process and a proof of value in either case. Entro scoped by non-human identity count and connected systems, and that conversation now runs through SailPoint. Astrix scoped by environment size and connected platforms, and with standalone licensing no longer sold to new buyers, its commercial path runs through Cisco on its terms and its timeline. Count your service accounts, keys, and OAuth grants first in the TCO calculator, because that is the number either vendor will price against.

Verdict

Neither of these is an independent vendor any more, which changes the question from which product is better to which platform you are standardizing on. For a purchase in 2026 the answer is Entro Security, because SailPoint says its products remain available to SailPoint customers as standalone offerings while Astrix Security ended new-license sales on 30 June 2026, and that argument gets stronger if SailPoint already runs your identity governance. Existing Astrix customers and Cisco shops face a different question, which is how the Cisco roadmap serves them, and that is worth asking Cisco directly rather than inferring. On capability our assessment is that there is little in it, since the two tie on seven of ten dimensions. If your problem is enforcement rather than discovery, neither of these is the product: see Aembit vs Astrix Security. The wider shortlist is best non-human identity security platforms.