Use Case

Secure Claude Access

Give every Claude agent and workload a verified identity, enforce access, and produce a compliance-ready audit trail – whether Claude is deployed across your workforce or called directly by agents and services.

Aembit with Claude architecture

The Challenge of Securing Claude at Scale

Organizations run into the same identity gap wherever Claude shows up: deployed across the workforce through Claude for Work and MCP, or embedded directly into agents and services through the Claude API.

Security teams need to close four security gaps to deploy Claude securely:

  • No agent identity, only user identity. Claude inherits the employee’s full access rights with no distinct identity of its own, making attribution in audit logs impossible and leaving services outside the IdP’s governance ungoverned.
  • Long-lived credentials stored in the wrong places. Standard MCP authentication stores API keys and tokens directly in Claude or MCP server configurations — static, unrotated, and sitting in places never designed to be credential stores.
  • Static API keys for direct Claude API access. Agents and services that call the Claude API directly often authenticate with long-lived sk-ant-... keys that get hardcoded into configs, shared across services, and rarely rotated.
  • No centralized access control. Policies and access must be configured for every user, agent, and workload individually, with no centralized logging across Claude for Work and API-based deployments.
Claude security before Aembit
How Aembit Secures Claude

How Aembit Secures Claude

Aembit provides a central control plane that covers Claude everywhere it shows up in your environment. For Claude deployed across the workforce, Aembit gives every agent a blended identity tied to but separate from the user’s human identity, and enforces least-privilege access policy at the MCP server level in real time. For agents and services calling the Claude API directly, Aembit’s Workload Identity Federation (WIF) Credential Provider replaces static API keys with short-lived tokens, obtained and injected automatically.

Either way, every action is attributable, every credential is short-lived, and every policy is enforced from the same console.

Security teams can say yes to Claude deployments, human-facing or programmatic, with the same identity, access, and audit controls they apply to the rest of their environment.

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Secure Claude API Access With Workload Identity Federation

Agents, internal tools, and application backends that call the Claude API directly don’t need a Claude for Work seat  – they need a credential. Most teams give them one the same way they always have: a static sk-ant-... API key, generated once and left to sit in an environment variable or config file until someone remembers to rotate it.

Aembit’s Claude WIF Credential Provider replaces that key with a short-lived, identity-based token. Aembit acts as a federated identity provider that Claude trusts as an OIDC issuer. When an Aembit Access Policy grants a workload access, Aembit exchanges its issued assertion for a short-lived Claude access token and injects it into the outbound request, transparently, with no changes to application code.

This is the same WIF Credential Provider pattern Aembit already runs in production for AWS STS, Azure Entra, and GCP, extended to cover Anthropic’s API. Teams already managing workload access through Aembit can bring Claude under the same policy model they use everywhere else, with no new key to generate or rotate.

Secure Claude Access to MCP Servers

Govern Claude’s access to tools, resources, and the Claude API itself, regardless of where agents operate, which MCP servers they connect to, or how they authenticate.

Secretless

Replace static credentials with ephemeral, single-use tokens.

Blended Identity

Unified treatment of human and agent identities within the same access and audit framework.

Workload Identity Federation

Exchange short-lived tokens for Claude API access instead of managing static sk-ant-... keys.

Policy Enforcement

Real-time allow/deny decisions at the traffic boundary, before any tool is invoked or data is reached.

Centralized Management

A single control plane governing all agent-to-service and workload-to-API access policies across the environment.

Audit With Attribution

Complete, human-agent-attributed logs for full operational visibility.

Agentic AI Identity and Access Management for All Your Teams

Empower your teams with Aembit’s IAM for Agentic AI – streamlined identity verification, simplified access controls, and consistent security across every agent deployment.

Security

Aembit's workload access process
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DevSecOps

Developers

Compliance

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Ready to Secure Your Claude Deployment?

Turn on secure, governed access for every Claude agent and workload without slowing down your rollout. Give your security team full visibility, enforce least-privilege by default, and ensure every action is attributable, auditable, and compliant from day one, whether Claude is deployed to your workforce or called directly through the API.