Microsoft’s cloud identity platform providing SSO, conditional access, MFA, and device compliance policies across Microsoft 365, Azure, and hybrid environments.
Microsoft Entra ID governs human identity across the Microsoft ecosystem: who employees are, how they authenticate across Microsoft 365 and Azure services, and how conditional access policies apply to devices and applications. The gap appears at the workload layer: Entra ID was built for human identities, and the service principals and app registrations teams use to authenticate non-human workloads are a structural workaround, not a purpose-built solution. They accumulate permissions without review cycles, require stored client secrets or certificates, and have no equivalent to the runtime attestation that workload identity requires. Aembit handles the layer Entra ID was not designed for, connects to Entra ID for administrator sign-in via SAML 2.0 or OIDC, and enables blended identity for agentic AI scenarios where an Entra ID-authenticated user and an AI agent workload identity are evaluated together in a single access decision.
Aembit does not replace Microsoft Entra ID. Entra ID governs human identity and application access across the Microsoft ecosystem, a problem Aembit was not designed to solve.
Aembit integrates with Microsoft Entra ID via SAML 2.0 or OIDC 1.0. Organizations that already have Entra ID deployed get:
– Administrator single sign-on to the Aembit platform using existing Entra ID credentials, so security and platform teams authenticate to Aembit using the same identity they use across Microsoft 365 and Azure. Aembit supports both SAML 2.0 and OIDC, with automatic user creation mapped from Entra ID group claims to Aembit roles.
– Blended identity for agentic AI scenarios. When an AI agent acts on behalf of a user authenticated through Entra ID, Aembit redirects the user to Entra ID for authentication, captures the resulting OIDC claims (email, groups, department, custom attributes), and combines them with the AI agent’s workload identity into a single access decision. This allows policies that express rules like “only members of the finance-approvers group in Entra ID can use an AI assistant to access payment processing APIs,” which Entra ID conditional access alone cannot enforce for agent workloads.
– Per-user credential isolation in agentic workflows. Each user’s AI agent session receives downstream credentials scoped to their Entra ID-attested identity. Revoking one user’s access does not affect other users or rotate shared credentials.
– A dual-attribution audit trail that combines Entra ID’s human authentication record with Aembit’s workload access log, meeting the SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI requirements for complete accountability in AI agent workflows.
Note:
Aembit also connects to Azure infrastructure through its Azure Metadata Service trust provider and Azure Entra Workload Identity Federation credential provider, which are distinct from the IdP integration described here and are relevant for Azure-hosted workloads authenticating to downstream services.
Resources:
Integration guide
Setup (SAML 2.0)
Setup (OIDC)
Blended identity
Azure Entra WIF (for Azure workloads)
Microsoft Entra ID and Aembit address different layers of enterprise identity in Microsoft-heavy environments.
Entra ID governs human identity across the Microsoft ecosystem: it authenticates employees signing into Microsoft 365, enforces conditional access policies based on device compliance and location, manages group membership and role assignments, and federates identity across Azure services.
The gap appears with non-human identities. When workloads need to call Azure services, external APIs, or third-party SaaS tools, teams typically register service principals in Entra ID and store client secrets or certificates. Those credentials require rotation, have no attestation model, are not tied to the runtime state of the workload, and accumulate across subscriptions without consistent governance. Aembit replaces this pattern for workload-to-service authentication: it attests the workload’s identity using Azure metadata or Kubernetes service account tokens and issues short-lived credentials without any stored secret.
The two tools operate in parallel without conflict. Entra ID continues to manage which employees can access which Azure resources and Microsoft applications. Aembit manages which Azure workloads, agents, and pipelines can reach which APIs, databases, and services, with policy-driven access controls, conditional enforcement, and a complete audit trail.
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