Control What AI Agents Can Do at Runtime

Evaluate intent and policy at the moment of action, block destructive or out-of-scope activity before execution, and maintain full traceability to the agent and originating user.

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Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority in Action

Welcome to the Akeyless Runtime Authority demo. Akeyless secures more than twenty billion machine and agent identity interactions every month. In this demo, you'll see Akeyless Runtime Authority in action, enabling credential free access for AI agents, coercing real time authorization and policy controls, protecting sensitive data from exposure, guiding agent behavior within security guardrails, and providing complete auditability for every agent action. In this environment, my AI agent has access to several enterprise systems, AWS, two databases, GitHub, and HubSpot. But the agent does not know any credentials for those systems. It only knows how to communicate with the Achilles gateway. For this demo, we will focus on the employee database. The database contains an employee table, and one of the columns contains employee salary information. As an administrator, I created a policy that prevents the agent from exposing salary data. Now I will ask the agent what it can access. The agent discovers the available systems through a keyless, and as we can see, it discovers that it has access to the databases AWS, GitHub, and HubSpot. Next, I will ask it to inspect the employee database. The agent queries the database through the gateway and finds the employee table. Now I will ask the agent to show me the employee table. The agent first tries the obvious query, select asterisk from employee, but Akeyless blocks the request because the query would expose salary information which violates the policy. The important part is what happens next. The agent understands that the salary data is restricted, adjusts its query, and requests only the allowed columns. This time, Akeyless approves a request, and the agent returns the employee data without exposing salary information. Finally, we can go back to Akeyless and see the full audit trail. We see the approved discovery query, the blocked query, and the modified query that excluded salary data. That is a keyless runtime authority. No secrets on the agent, no direct access to enterprise systems, real time policy enforcement, and full traceability for every AI agent action. Thank you for watching this demo. If you're looking to secure AI agent identities and govern agent access to enterprise systems, request a customized demo at aculess. Io.

Let AI Agents Act Without Giving Up Control

Define what agents can do, then enforce those boundaries at runtime. Keep agent behavior aligned with approved intent and policy.

Securely Accelerate Agent Adoption

Deploy agents against production databases and cloud infrastructure safely.

Stop Unauthorized Agent Actions

Continuously evaluate intent and block actions outside approved policy.

Prevent Sensitive Data Exposure

Regulated data never enters the agent’s context, even on authorized queries.

Prove AI Compliance

Trace every action to a policy decision and the user behind it.

Valid Identity Can Still Lead to Unauthorized Agent Actions

Traditional access controls determine what an identity is allowed to access, but they don’t evaluate whether an agent’s next action matches the task it was given. An agent can hold legitimate permissions and still delete data, change configurations, or expose sensitive information. At agent speed, post-action detection is already too late.

Bring Agent Activity Under Your Control

Every agent request is brokered through the Akeyless Gateway, where intent, policy, data exposure, and audit are enforced in a single path.

Runtime Authority evaluates agent intent and policy before allowing or blocking an action.

Enforce Intent-Aware Policy on Every Action

Evaluate the semantic intent of each request against the originating prompt and your policies. Destructive or out-of-scope actions are blocked at the Gateway, before execution. If needed, any live session can be ended instantly with a one-click kill switch.

Stop risky behavior without stopping legitimate work.

The Akeyless Gateway redacts sensitive customer fields before returning data to an AI agent.

Give Agents Only the Data They Need

Inspect responses before they reach the agent and apply your data policies in real time. Define what each agent is allowed to see, and redact PII, PHI, financial records, secrets, and other protected information before it enters the agent’s context.

Protect sensitive data even when the action is authorized.

Runtime Authority records agent activity for forensic traceability.

Maintain Full Forensic Traceability

Capture every agent action in a single immutable record: originating prompt, classified intent, policy verdict, session, and final action on the target. Every action traces back to the human who initiated it.

Speed investigations and produce audit-ready evidence.

Runtime Authority connects security events to monitoring and remediation tools.

Trigger Automated Remediation

Send enriched Runtime Authority events to your existing SIEM, SOAR, and IT operations tools with the context needed to act. Use flagged activity to trigger credential rotation, revoke access, or open a remediation workflow automatically.

Contain incidents without waiting on a ticket.

AI Agent Use Cases

Common access patterns CISOs need to govern

Secure AI Assistants Accessing SaaS Apps

The risk: an assistant with a user’s full SSO permissions acts beyond its task.

Akeyless Runtime Authority blocks out-of-scope actions, restricts data access, and maintains attribution to the originating user, so AI assistants can work with Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, and other business apps safely.

Govern Coding Agents in Production

The risk: a coding agent inherits a developer’s full production access.

Akeyless evaluates every command before it runs and blocks destructive or unauthorized actions, so Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other coding agents can securely reach production systems and infrastructure.

Control Autonomous Agentic Applications

The risk: an autonomous app acts with no human reviewing any step.

Akeyless enforces intent-based policy, controls sensitive-data outflow, and stops privilege abuse, so autonomous agents can safely act across databases, APIs, cloud services, and applications.

Protect Sensitive Data in Agent Queries

The risk: authorized queries return sensitive information into reports and model context.

Akeyless inspects results in real time and masks protected fields, so agents supporting sales, marketing, or other teams can pull the data they need without exposing PII, financial records, and other sensitive data.

Agentic Runtime Authority In Action

Every agent request is intercepted before reaching its target, evaluated against declared intent, and continuously inspected during execution. Live commands across SSH, databases, Kubernetes, and cloud APIs are monitored and blocked immediately if they exceed approved authority.

With Agentic Runtime Authority, you don't just hope your AI behaves. You enforce its boundaries at the Gateway level, and you maintain a tamper-proof forensic audit trail of every single prompt and API call it attempts to make.

Secure the Access Path Too

Runtime Authority controls what authenticated agents can do. Akeyless SecretlessAI® keeps credentials out of agent hands entirely, so there are no keys or tokens to steal and access ends when the session does. Even a compromised agent can get no further than that session.

Explore SecretlessAI

One Platform. Every Identity Secured. Everywhere.

AI agent security does not exist in isolation. The same identities and credentials that power AI agents also underpin application secrets, encryption keys, service accounts, certificates, and human access.

Akeyless unifies Privileged Access, Secrets Management, KMS, and Certificate Lifecycle Management into a single SaaS platform with one policy engine and one audit trail.

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“Akeyless is true SaaS that allows you to scale. It’s purpose-built to live in the cloud. We saved 70% of our maintenance and provisioning time with Akeyless.”

Richard Barretto
Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President, Progress

“With Akeyless, we now have a scalable secrets management platform that's enterprise class. The fact that we have a cloud-first enterprise solution gives me confidence that Akeyless will scale as our business does."

Adam Hanson
Director of IT Security Architecture, Design & Testing, Constant Contact

“Akeyless’ platform approach, superb technology and service excellence made it easy for us to decide to rip and replace Hashi Vault."

Daniel Fabbo
Senior Manager of Information Security, Cimpress

“Akeyless revolutionized our approach to security, shifting our paradigm from trusted networks to zero-trust access. The simplicity of Akeyless has enhanced our operations and given us the confidence to move forward securely."

Shai Ganny
SecOps Team Lead, Wix

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Auditing and Compliance

Quantum-Safe,Zero-Knowledge Security

Patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ and hybrid post-quantum encryption keep secrets and data secure.

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FAQs About Runtime Authority

What is AI agent runtime security?

AI agent runtime security controls what agents are allowed to do while they interact with enterprise systems. Akeyless Runtime Authority evaluates intent and policy for each action, blocks unauthorized activity before execution, and maintains control as agents operate.

Why do AI agents need runtime controls beyond IAM and RBAC?

IAM and RBAC establish identity and permissions, but AI agents are non-deterministic and can take unexpected actions within valid access. Runtime Authority evaluates what the agent is actually trying to do and enforces authority at the moment of action.

How does Akeyless Runtime Authority prevent unauthorized AI agent actions?

Runtime Authority evaluates each request against the originating prompt and your policies before it executes. It grants authority for in-scope actions and blocks activity that violates policy or falls outside the assigned task.

What is intent-aware access control for AI agents?

Intent-aware access control considers the purpose behind an agent’s action, not just whether its identity has permission to reach a system. This allows Akeyless to distinguish between an appropriate action and a destructive or out-of-scope action performed with otherwise valid access.

What is the difference between SecretlessAI and Runtime Authority?

SecretlessAI protects the access path by keeping credentials out of AI agent hands and removing direct connectivity to enterprise systems. Runtime Authority protects agent activity by controlling what authenticated agents are allowed to do, including intent-aware enforcement, data controls, and forensic traceability.