Author: Dan Kaplan

Workload access has become the new identity frontier. As infrastructure shifts to automated, cross-cloud environments, traditional secrets-based authentication is breaking down. This post explores how identity federation offers a modern alternative—enabling dynamic, policy-driven access without hardcoded credentials. Learn how federation works for non-human identities, where legacy models fall short, and how to implement secure, scalable federation with tools like Aembit.
The vulnerability shows how modern application development is accelerating without bringing access controls along for the ride.
You can monitor traffic all day, but if you don’t control what's allowed to send it, you're already behind.
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After locking down workforce identity, Snowflake’s security team took on the harder problem – controlling non-human access at scale without slowing teams down.
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Builders and protectors don’t have to clash – they just need a common path.