We’re delighted to officially announce Aembit’s partnership with Netskope – and our participation in Netskope’s exclusive RSA 2026 Tech Day Workshop on Wednesday in San Francisco. Register to join us.
TL;DR:
Aembit and Netskope have partnered to give enterprises end-to-end security for agentic AI deployments. Aembit handles identity and access management for AI agents – ensuring every agent has a verified identity and never holds a raw credential – while the Netskope One AI Gateway inspects content, enforces DLP policies, and manages LLM access. Together, they close the access management gap that leaves most enterprises exposed as AI adoption accelerates.
AI agents are being deployed across enterprises at a pace that’s outrunning security. Gartner predicts 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2028, up from less than 1% in 2024. Yet many organizations are still relying on identity and access management systems built for humans – systems that can’t scale to account for the 92 machine identities that exist for every one human user.
Unlike other non-human identities (NHI), AI agents can’t rely on static credentials or pre-provisioned access — their behaviors are too dynamic and unpredictable. Under-provisioning causes task failure; over-provisioning access creates a scenario where an actor can query databases, call external APIs, or pass sensitive data to models with no audit trail or policy enforcement. That gap creates opportunities for serious risks: leaked credentials, data exfiltration, prompt injection attacks, and uncontrolled data usage among others identified by Gartner experts.
Aembit and Netskope are built to close that gap.
In October, Aembit announced identity and access management for agentic AI, giving organizations a centralized control plane to secure, manage, and audit agents’ access to sensitive data. Last week, Netskope introduced a suite of new AI-focused solutions, including the Netskope One AI Gateway – designed to enforce security policies for private AI applications, including self-hosted or built-in LLMs, within enterprise environments.
Together, Aembit and Netskope cover layers every enterprise AI deployment needs: identity validation and content inspection.
Benefits of Aembit IAM for Agentic AI
Aembit extends modern authentication approaches to non-human identities, including AI agents. By assigning each agent a blended identity and inserting the MCP Identity Gateway between agents and the tools they access, Aembit gives enterprises the same rigorous access control and audit trail for agents that IAM systems have historically delivered for employees.
With Aembit, organizations can:
- Accelerate enterprise AI adoption safely: Agents never hold direct credentials to enterprise systems, and every access attempt is logged for easy auditability – so you can move fast without creating blind spots.
- Apply identity-based policies to AI agent activity: A central control plane governs agentic AI’s access to sensitive data and resources based on verified identity and policy – not risky, shareable secrets.
- Eliminate blind spots with clear visibility and attribution: Know exactly which agent, operating on behalf of which user, accessed which MCP server and when.
Benefits of the Netskope One AI Gateway
The Netskope One AI Gateway provides a single API for applications to securely access and interact with multiple AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google Gemini. Organizations benefit from:
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Content Monitoring: Monitors and blocks sensitive organizational data from leaving the network perimeter, while AI guardrails defend against prompt injection attacks and inappropriate content generation.
- Authentication and Rate Limiting: Enforces token-based authentication and regulates request volume to prevent abuse and manage traffic flow across AI model interactions.
- Monitoring and Compliance: Tracks all usage data to ensure interactions adhere to established corporate standards – giving compliance teams the audit trail they need.
How Aembit and Netskope Work Together
The integration works across two layers: identity (Aembit) and content inspection (Netskope). Here’s how a secure AI agent interaction flows from end to end:
- Deploy the Netskope One AI Gateway. The Gateway is deployed as a VM in ESXi or an AMI in AWS, then configured with policies that create AI guardrails, filter prompts, and enable DLP rules.
- Deploy Aembit Edge. Aembit Edge is deployed alongside the AI agent and configured with the agent’s client identity, verification parameters, and conditional access policies.
- Credential injection at runtime. When the agent initiates an API call, Aembit Edge dynamically injects two credentials: one to authenticate access to the Netskope One AI Gateway, and one for the agent to access the downstream LLM through the Gateway. Aembit also enforces access to additional MCP servers in a policy-based and secretless manner.
Aembit and Netskope Agentic AI Architecture
By authenticating both legs of the API call – agent to gateway, and gateway to LLM – Aembit removes the need for deployers to create, store, or share access tokens. Netskope inspects all content in transit and logs every interaction for compliance. By injecting a header for Netskope to detect for policy matching, Aembit enables Netskope to apply fine grained identity-based policies based on the agent’s identity. Both platforms provide complementary logging, auditing, and compliance capabilities for defense in depth.
Join Us at Netskope’s Tech Day Workshop at RSA 2026
Want to see this in action? Join Aembit at the Netskope Tech Day Workshop – a hands-on, collaborative summit designed for enterprise security leaders, architects, and practitioners. Walk away with real-world, actionable strategies for deploying agentic AI safely and securely.
Event Details
- Event: Netskope Tech Day Workshop at RSA Conference 2026
- Location: Convene, 100 Stockton St., San Francisco
- Date: Wednesday, March 25
- Time: 1 to 4 p.m. PT
Schedule time with Aembit experts to discuss identity and access management for workloads and agentic AI.
FAQ
What is agentic AI security? Agentic AI security refers to the tools and policies used to control, monitor, and audit autonomous AI agents in enterprise environments – including how they authenticate, what data they access, and how their outputs are governed.
Why aren’t existing IAM systems sufficient for AI agents? Traditional IAM was built for human users with usernames, passwords, and MFA. AI agents operate programmatically, at scale, and often with hardcoded or shared credentials – none of which human-focused IAM systems were designed to handle.
How does Aembit secure AI agents without shared secrets? Aembit assigns each agent a blended identity and deploys an MCP Identity Gateway proxy that injects credentials dynamically at runtime. Agents never store or hold access tokens directly.
What is the Netskope One AI Gateway? A unified API layer that routes AI model traffic – to models like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini – through a single, policy-enforced control point with DLP, prompt filtering, rate limiting, and compliance monitoring.
How do Aembit and Netskope work together? Aembit authenticates the AI agent’s identity and injects credentials for both the Netskope One AI Gateway and the downstream LLM. Netskope then inspects content, enforces data policies, and logs all activity. Together they deliver end-to-end control across identity and content.
How can I start using this? Contact Aembit here. Got technical questions? Set up time to talk to an engineer here.
Where can I see this live? Aembit will be at Netskope’s Tech Day Workshop at RSA 2026 on March 25 in San Francisco. Schedule time with our team.
