Aembit
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Aembit is a workload identity and access management platform that manages how workloads, services, and AI agents authenticate and access downstream APIs and services — without static credentials.
Non-Human Identity
Service accounts, workload identities, and secrets governance.
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Quick answer
What is Non-Human Identity?
Short answer
Non-human identity (NHI) platforms discover and govern service accounts, API keys, OAuth apps, and workload credentials that humans never see.
- Best for
- Security teams trying to inventory and reduce risk from sprawling service accounts and machine credentials.
- When to choose
- Prioritize discovery breadth, posture/risk scoring, and remediation workflows. NHI is a fast-moving category — re-evaluate yearly.
- When not to choose
- Skip Non-Human Identity tooling if a broader IAM platform already covers your needs and you don't have category-specific requirements.
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Top vendors in Non-Human Identity
Cerbos
Free tier
Cerbos is an authorization management platform built around an open source policy decision point (PDP). It enforces fine-grained RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, and ReBAC policies for applications, APIs, workloads, and AI agents.
HashiCorp Vault
Open coreFree tierEnterprise
Widely used secrets management and machine identity platform, available as open source, enterprise and HCP Vault Dedicated.
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Best AI agent identity tools in 2026
Leading AI agent identity tools today come from machine identity vendors extending to agent use cases: Aembit for workload-to-workload auth, Teleport for engineering access, StrongDM for human-and-machine access, and emerging vendors like Veza for permission visibility.
Best Machine Identity & Non-Human Identity Tools in 2026
Aembit focuses purely on workload-to-workload identity. Teleport and StrongDM secure machine-mediated infra access. 1Password and Keeper extend secrets governance to services. Cerbos and Permit.io add policy-as-code authorization for non-human callers.
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