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How to Secure Claude Access in the Enterprise

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Securing Claude in an enterprise comes down to three things: giving each Claude agent its own identity, removing the long-lived secrets that agents use to reach internal systems, and keeping an audit trail that separates what the agent did from what the human did.

Claude’s own enterprise controls handle how a person signs in. They do not give the agent an identity of its own, which is where the security gap opens.

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Does Claude's enterprise auth already secure agent access?

Claude’s enterprise-managed auth centralizes how people reach connectors, using your existing directory groups in Okta. It authenticates the human. When a Claude agent then acts on that person’s behalf, it operates under the person’s identity, with no separate record of what the agent did versus the human. Enterprise auth answers who logged in. It does not answer which agent, acting for whom, touched which system.

Enterprise auth answers

Who logged in

It does not answer

Which agent, acting for whom, touched which system

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How do you give a Claude agent its own identity?

Aembit attests each agent from its runtime environment and issues it a cryptographically verifiable identity. When the agent acts for a person, Aembit combines that agent identity with the human’s identity from your existing IdP into a blended identity, so one policy and one audit trail cover the full action. When the agent runs autonomously, it carries its own attested identity with no human in the loop.

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How do you remove stored secrets from MCP server configs?

You stop storing them. Aembit issues short-lived, policy-scoped credentials at request time and never writes them to the agent’s runtime. The credential exists for the call and expires with it, so there is no long-lived secret sitting in an MCP config for an attacker to find.

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How do you audit what a Claude agent did versus the human?

Aembit logs every access request with the agent identity, the human identity behind it, the target system, and the policy decision, then forwards those logs to your SIEM. An access review can answer which agent, acting for which person, reached which system, in the time it takes to run a query.

2 weeks

To deploy at a $300B investment firm

< 6 hrs

Less credential rotation

0 rip-out

Anchored to existing Okta, logging to CrowdStrike

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How long does securing Claude access take?

A $300B investment firm deployed Aembit to secure Claude in two weeks, using under six hours of security-team time, anchored to their existing Okta and logging to CrowdStrike.

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Aembit and an AI gateway

AI gateway

A gateway controls which servers an agent can reach and routes its traffic.

Aembit

Aembit controls the agent’s identity and its access to each system, and records who acted.

A gateway controls which servers an agent can reach and routes its traffic. Aembit controls the agent’s identity and its access to each system, and records who acted. Teams often run both: the gateway for traffic, Aembit for identity and access. Aembit is what you add when the question is not “which servers” but “which identity, with what access, and how do we prove it.”

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