Market map / Non-human & agentic identity
Aembit
Secretless workload identity: a policy-driven access layer for service-to-service auth.
- Category
- Workload identity & access management
- Lane
- Non-human & agentic identity
- Founded
- 2021
- Ownership
- Private; VC-backed (Series A; CrowdStrike, Ten Eleven, Ballistic)
- HQ
- Silver Spring, US
Summary
Aembit provides workload identity and access management, letting services authenticate to each other and to third-party APIs without managing secrets. It issues short-lived credentials based on policy, addressing the runtime-access half of the non-human identity problem.
Best for
Engineering teams that want secretless, policy-driven service-to-service and API access.
Consider if
You primarily need discovery and posture governance of existing NHIs rather than runtime access.
Strengths
- Secretless, short-lived workload credentials
- Policy-driven service-to-service access
- Backed by CrowdStrike and security-focused VCs
Considerations
- Runtime access focus, not inventory or governance
- Requires integration into workload deployment