Managing the initial access credential — known as “secret zero” — is a significant security challenge in environments with numerous non-human identities (NHIs).
With every new workload that emerges, an initial secret – the secret zero – is required to unlock other essential secrets. Secret zeros are often manually created and delivered, a task that amplifies as you scale workloads.
The secret zero problem flies under the radar because of its seemingly straightforward nature and “just this once” dynamic. But as your workloads increase in volume, these secrets are hard to manage, track and secure.
Aembit replaces secret zero with a process to cryptographically verify workload identities every time it accesses sensitive resources – even the first time.
The entire access lifecycle – enrollment, policy enforcement, even logging and auditing – is automated, relieving your teams from these routine tasks and letting them focus more on innovation and less on the intricacies of access or secrets management.
Replace secret zero with Identity Attestation. Now you can cryptographically verify the identity of the application using native identities and eliminate easily stolen credentials.
Eliminate the unscalable manual efforts (and time) needed to bootstrap new workloads. No more risky, human provisioning and management of secrets.
Improve management efficiency by setting policies, based on both identity of a job and dynamic conditions. Eliminate the need to manage low level credentials.
Eliminate the need for developers to build and manage auth within applications. Implement a single, consistent approach.
