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Accelerate the Secure Adoption of AI Agents

Akeyless is your Identity Provider for AI Agents. Centralize secrets, authentication, and access to keep AI workloads secure everywhere they run.

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AI Agent Security, Simplified

  • Faster, Safer AI Adoption

    Accelerate innovation with secure, policy-controlled access for every AI agent.

  • Reduce Risk

    Eliminate credential exposure with Zero Standing Privileges and secretless access.

  • Simplify Governance and Compliance

    Centralize control, visibility, and policy enforcement across every environment.

AI Agents: The Fastest-Growing Security Blind Spot

AI agents are transforming how work gets done, but they also introduce a new, ungoverned layer of identity risk.

Traditional identity tools were built for humans, not for millions of autonomous agents that connect across APIs, clouds, and data systems. Moreover, these agents retain awareness of their identities and secrets. Most still rely on hardcoded credentials that are easy to leak, hard to rotate, and impossible to govern.

For every human identity, there are now more than 80 machine or AI identities. Each interacts with dozens of systems and often exposes secrets through logs, prompts, or code. Without ephemeral, policy-controlled identities, every interaction becomes a potential breach point.

Securely Accelerate AI Adoption

Scale AI agents safely without slowing development or innovation.

Eliminate Credential Exposure

Keep secrets out of prompts, logs, and pipelines.

  • Replace hardcoded credentials with ephemeral, just-in-time access
  • Remove the “secret zero” bootstrap risk
  • Enable dynamic rotation and instant expiration

Secure AI Agent Connectivity

Allow AI agents to authenticate and operate safely across every environment.

  • Federate identities across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem systems 
  • Extend secretless authentication to legacy and non-OAuth targets 
  • Keeps secrets out of developer workflows through integrations for Cursor, VS Code, n8n, and Copilot via MCP

Control Every Interaction

Enforce least privilege and visibility for autonomous agents.

  • Apply policy-driven access in real time
  • Record and monitor privileged sessions
  • Detect and terminate rogue or anomalous activity

Future-Proof Your AI Agent Security

Protect against both current and emerging threats with zero-knowledge, quantum-safe cryptography.

  • Ensure secrets and keys are never exposed, not even to Akeyless
  • Enable hybrid TLS 1.3 + ML-KEM768 post-quantum encryption for lasting protection
  • Achieve unified identity security across multi-cloud, SaaS, and on-prem systems

How Akeyless Secures AI Agents

Akeyless makes it possible to scale AI safely and securely. Powered by three core pillars and fully MCP enabled, the platform lets agents and developer tools connect in real time without exposing secrets.

  • Secretless AI

    Eliminate static credentials by issuing secrets dynamically in real time. Hardcoded secrets, keys, and certificates are removed from code and prompts, replaced with temporary credentials that expire immediately or are retrieved securely in real time through Akeyless. Zero-knowledge cryptography, removes the “secret zero” risk and prevents exposure across every workflow.

  • AI Agent Identity Provider

    Give every AI agent a trusted, verifiable identity that works everywhere. Ephemeral, policy-bound identities federate securely across clouds, SaaS, and on-prem systems. Lightweight gateways extend authentication to internal environments without exposing credentials externally. Every interaction is tied to an auditable identity.

  • Privileged AI Agent Access

    Extend Zero Trust oversight to autonomous systems. Privileged agents connect through a secure proxy only when needed and for the duration of each session. Activity is monitored and recorded in real time, and rogue sessions can be terminated.

How it Works

What Makes Akeyless Different

  • Federation Across Every Environment

    Securely connect AI agents across clouds, SaaS, and on-prem systems with native IAM and Kubernetes integration. Customer-controlled gateways extend secretless authentication to internal and legacy applications.

  • Zero-Knowledge Cryptography

    Patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ (DFC) keeps secrets and keys hidden, even from Akeyless, delivering uncompromisable trust for every agent and data connection.

  • AI-Powered Detection and Insight

    With Akeyless AI Insights™, security teams can detect anomalies, identify identity risks, and trigger responses through AI-powered discovery, detection, and remediation.

  • Secure Remote Access for AI Workloads

    Grant just-in-time, policy-controlled access to databases and infrastructure, without VPNs or standing privileges. Every session is monitored, recorded, and fully auditable.

  • 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
    Adam Hanson explains why Akeyless was uniquely able to address his concerns
  • 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
    Watch why Akeyless is uniquely positioned to take on the secrets management sector
  • 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 & VP, Progress
    Watch video about secure DevOps credentials and access to resources in a multi-cloud world
  • 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
    Watch how Akeyless helped Wix achieve a true Zero Trust environment

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FAQs

Answers to the Most Common Questions About Akeyless AI Agent Security

Akeyless AI Agent Security is a solution that protects AI agents by giving them verifiable, short-lived identities instead of static credentials. It eliminates embedded secrets and ensures agents authenticate securely across any cloud, SaaS, or on-prem system.

Akeyless removes the need for secrets in code, prompts, or pipelines through SecretlessAI™. AI agents request ephemeral access at runtime, and credentials expire immediately after use—removing the “secret zero” risk entirely.

The Akeyless AI Agent Identity Provider assigns each AI agent a trusted, policy-controlled identity. These ephemeral identities authenticate securely across clouds, SaaS, and on-prem environments—replacing static API keys with dynamic, auditable trust.

Akeyless is fully MCP enabled, allowing AI agents and tools like VS Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot to securely retrieve credentials in real time. Developers can build and deploy AI agents without embedding or managing secrets manually.

Yes. Akeyless uses lightweight, customer-controlled gateways that extend secretless authentication to databases, mainframes, and other systems without modern OAuth or OIDC support.

Unlike observability or governance-only tools, Akeyless provides runtime identity issuance, secretless authentication, and zero-knowledge cryptography in one platform. It protects agents during operation, not just at setup or discovery.

Yes. Akeyless uses hybrid TLS 1.3 with ML-KEM768, a NIST-selected post-quantum algorithm, ensuring long-term protection for AI agent communications.

Yes. Akeyless records privileged sessions, logs all credential issuance, and provides full audit trails aligned with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FIPS 140-2 standards.