Keyfactor announced its intent to acquire UK-based identity platform Cofide to extend its trust infrastructure to software workloads and artificial intelligence agents across cloud environments. The transaction will integrate Cofide into the Keyfactor Trust Control Plane, creating a single system for security teams to manage and govern non-human identities throughout the enterprise.

As organizations rapidly implement artificial intelligence, automated systems operating within corporate networks now vastly outnumber human employees. Traditional security practices often rely on static credentials that can be stolen or duplicated, effectively granting bad actors full system access. Cofide addresses this risk by assigning each workload and AI agent a unique, short-lived identity tied to specific outcomes, bringing established trust standards to emerging artificial intelligence deployments.

“At Keyfactor, we’ve built a track record of expanding our platform capabilities to meet the evolving demands of digital trust and security,” said Jordan Rackie, Chief Executive Officer, Keyfactor. “Our intent to acquire Cofide is another step in that journey. As AI agents, machine identities, and autonomous workloads become critical to business operations, trust infrastructure must evolve to keep pace. Cofide strengthens our vision for the Trust Control Plane by extending trusted identity beyond traditional systems and enabling our customers to securely manage the next generation of digital actors with the same confidence they rely on today.”

Company leadership emphasized that operational complexity often prevents organizations from securing workloads effectively. By incorporating Cofide Connect technology into Keyfactor’s broader architecture, enterprises can extend trusted identity deeper into cloud-native and agentic environments without sacrificing centralized control.

“Customers stall on securing their workloads because it is operationally hard, not because the technology falls short,” said Gün Akkor, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Keyfactor. “Cofide makes it practical, and the Trust Control Plane makes it something enterprises can operate and prove at scale.”

The deal allows Cofide to scale its open standards approach to workload identity management across multi-cloud environments, addressing the rapid proliferation of autonomous systems in modern business operations.

“We built Cofide to provide an open standards-based trust layer that unifies workload IAM across multiple cloud platforms and environments, reducing operational complexity while strengthening our customer’s security,” said Matthew Bates, Founder and CEO, Cofide. “AI agents are proliferating faster than most organizations can secure them. Joining Keyfactor allows us to accelerate delivery of that vision at a scale and depth of trust no standalone company could achieve, exactly when customers need it most.”

Upon closing, Cofide’s team and technology will join Keyfactor to bolster the company’s capabilities in delivering security infrastructure for the artificial intelligence and quantum eras.