Apurva Davé

Chief Marketing Officer

About Author

Apurva Davé is the chief marketing officer at Aembit. He likes to take small things that are important and make them big things that are even more important. He did that at Riverbed, from its early days through its IPO; at Jut, which he founded; at Sysdig, from seed stage to unicorn; and at Google Cloud Security, where he helped triple the team and revenue. Despite his obsession with growth, Apurva still enjoys surfing small waves with his longboard. But hey, you can’t grow everything.

Expertise

  • Cybersecurity
  • Cloud security
  • Identity and access management
  • Non-human identity
  • Workload identity and access management
  • Developer and infrastructure security
  • Security product strategy
  • Developer-focused marketing
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Category and company building

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Brown University
  • Master of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Articles by Apurva Davé

Eliminating static API keys is real progress – but securing one credential surface is not the same as governing workload access at scale.
Workload access management isn’t identity management – it enforces access and eliminates credentials. Learn the five core WAM capabilities
NHIM, MIM, and workload IAM each address a different layer of non-human identity security. Learn how they compare and complement each other.
Aembit IAM for Agentic AI combines blended identity with an MCP Identity Gateway for enterprise agents.
Legacy IAM can’t govern autonomous AI agents that spin up, execute and terminate in seconds. New identity patterns are now emerging.
MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to tools, but every agent needs delegated authority and precise permission controls to match.
Test your MCP systems for confused deputy attacks, token passthrough risks and the authorization patterns the specification requires.
The concept of nonhuman identity is gaining traction fast, sparking new debate over how it differs from managing service accounts.
MCP gives AI agents a common language for action—but also a new attack surface. Here’s how to model threats before they become incidents.
Zero trust has matured for human users, but most workloads are still running on static secrets. This primer covers the principles to fix that.
When your team stores API keys in a vault and rotates them on a schedule, it feels like the access problem is handled.
For years, artificial intelligence has been reactive. You prompted it, and it responded by analyzing data, generating text or predicting outcomes, but only when asked.