Identity Security for AI Agents

Protect the credentials AI agents use, control actions with intent-aware enforcement, and audit all credential access and activity

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Securing AI Agents in Claude with Akeyless

See how Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority enables secure AI agent access with just-in-time credentials, runtime policy enforcement, and full auditability.

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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.

Secure AI Agents from Identity to Action

Remove standing access, ensure actions align with approved intent, and maintain accountability for everything agents do.

Secure AI Agents at Scale

Issue, enforce, and revoke agent identities at machine speed and scale.

Reduce Standing Privilege

Replace persistent credentials with just-in-time, scoped access.

Authorize Actions by Intent

Assess AI agent intent and allow only valid, policy-aligned actions.

Log Actions and Remediate Risk

Maintain a complete record of agent activity and route exploitable credentials to remediation.

AI Agents Break Traditional Identity Security

AI agents operate with too much power and too little oversight. Your coding agent may hold standing keys to production, or find ones you never gave it, sitting in a config file or memory store. Your customer service agent might pull records a human in the role can't and shouldn't. Traditional access control cannot determine intent or keep up with agents acting autonomously in milliseconds. By the time they detect misuse, the damage is done.

This Isn't a Future Problem

42%

of organizations hardcode AI agent credentials directly in workflows*

81%

YoY growth in leaked AI-service credentials on GitHub**

24,000+

secrets exposed in MCP config files in 2025**

In 9 Seconds

an AI coding agent found an over-privileged credential and deleted a production database***

Full Control, from Credential to Action to Audit.

Go Secretless

Remove standing credentials entirely with Akeyless SecretlessAI®. Akeyless brokers access through the Gateway and generates scoped, short-lived access for each task across SaaS, web apps, and infrastructure alike. AI agents never receive a secret—no storage, no privilege buildup, and nothing for a compromised or prompt-injected agent to steal.

Secure Every Mode of Access

Not every agent can go fully secretless. Some still need direct credentials: passwords, API keys, certificates, cryptographic keys. Akeyless governs their issuance, rotation, and revocation under centralized policy, so nothing goes unmanaged or forgotten.

Enforce Intent-Aware Policy at Runtime

Assess the semantic intent behind each request and constrain the agent to the authority appropriate for the task—even when the underlying user or identity has broader permissions. Enforce policy at runtime to block unauthorized actions and filter or mask sensitive output. Any session can be shut down instantly with a real-time kill switch.

Find and Fix What's Exploitable

Discover orphaned credentials, stale tokens, and overbroad access that agents could exploit. Identify and prioritize the ones with real potential for harm, and route them to remediation.

Trace Actions End-to-End

Eliminate the AI black box. Log every credential use and every action, and trace each one back to the human, machine, or agent behind it. One complete audit trail, spanning both credential access and activity.

How Akeyless Secures AI Agents

Credential protection, activity protection, and governance and visibility, in one platform.

Credential Protection

Akeyless SecretlessAI®

Eliminate credential exposure to the agent by brokering access through the Akeyless Gateway. Agents never hold or see target credentials or connect directly to enterprise systems.

Credential Protection

Password Manager for AI

Workforce agents often access applications on a user's behalf, even apps without SSO or OAuth. Akeyless keeps user passwords out of workflows and out of agent hands.

Credential Protection

AI Secrets Manager

Reduce risk for agents that need direct system access. Akeyless secures every credential, from API keys to certificates, with automated rotation and granular policy enforcement.

Activity Protection

Agentic Runtime Authority

Ensure AI agents act only within approved intent and authority. Akeyless evaluates requests, enforces policy, and stops unsafe actions at runtime.

Governance & Visibility

Agentic Identity Intelligence

Surface risky connections between identities, credentials, and the sensitive systems they can reach. Feed findings directly into your existing SIEM and GRC tools.

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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.

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

Supporting a Broad Ecosystem of Integrations

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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Webinar Securing AI Agents in Real Time

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Report 2026 State of AI Agent Identity Security

Insights, benchmarks, and real-world data on how AI agents are reshaping identity risk and what organizations must do next.

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Data Sheet AI Agent Identity Security Solution

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FAQs

Answers to the Most Common Questions About Identity Security for AI Agents

What is AI agent identity security?

AI agent identity security is the practice of discovering AI agents, managing the identities and credentials they use, and controlling what actions they can perform. It combines identity visibility, least-privilege access, and runtime enforcement to secure autonomous AI workflows.

How is securing AI agents different from traditional IAM?

Traditional IAM relies on static roles and credentials, which cannot evaluate intent or control actions at runtime. AI agent security requires continuous visibility into identities and data access, along with real-time enforcement based on what the agent is trying to do.

How does Akeyless control AI agent actions at runtime?

Akeyless evaluates agent requests against identity, intent, permissions, and policy, constrains the agent to the authority appropriate for the task, and enforces controls at runtime to block unauthorized actions and filter or mask sensitive output.

How does Akeyless reduce standing credential and privilege risk for AI agents?

Akeyless keeps target credentials out of AI agents and uses short-lived, dynamic credentials where supported. Runtime Authority further reduces privilege risk by constraining what an authenticated agent is allowed to do based on the task, intent, and policy.

How does Akeyless support audit and compliance for AI agents?

Akeyless creates a complete audit trail linking the prompt, intent, policy decision, session, and executed action, enabling full traceability and investigation.

Does Akeyless support MCP and AI agent frameworks?

Yes. Akeyless integrates with modern AI agent frameworks and supports protocols like MCP, enabling secure access to tools, data, and infrastructure without exposing secrets.

How is Akeyless different from other AI security solutions?

Akeyless combines identity discovery and runtime enforcement in a single platform. Unlike tools that focus only on monitoring or access, Akeyless provides both visibility into AI agents and real-time control over what they can do.

* Akeyless, 2026 State of AI Agent Identity Security Report (2026).
** GitGuardian, The State of Secrets Sprawl 2026, 5th ed. (2026).
*** SC Media, "AI Coding Agent Deletes Production Database in Seconds" (April 28, 2026)