An enterprise IGA platform providing identity lifecycle management, access certification, role management, and compliance reporting for large enterprises with complex regulatory requirements.
SailPoint governs human identity lifecycle: who employees and contractors are, what systems they can access, whether that access is appropriate, and whether it has been reviewed and certified. That model runs on the cadence of human employment — joiner-mover-leaver flows tied to HR events, periodic access reviews, and segregation of duties enforcement for people. The gap appears when the identity in question is not a person. Workloads, AI agents, and CI/CD pipelines operate on a deployment cadence rather than an HR cadence. They may exist for seconds, spin up thousands of times per day, and never appear in any HR system. Aembit governs runtime access for those non-human identities: policy-based, secretless, and attestation-driven. The two tools address different identity populations in the same enterprise and are both needed in a mature stack.
Aembit does not replace SailPoint. SailPoint governs human identity lifecycle and access certification, a problem Aembit was not designed to solve.
Organizations running SailPoint can use Aembit to extend the same governance principles to non-human identities without replacing their existing SailPoint investment.
Aembit’s attestation-based audit logs for workloads and AI agents can feed the same SIEM and compliance workflows that SailPoint certification data already flows into. This produces a unified audit picture across both identity types: SailPoint provides the human access review record, Aembit provides the runtime non-human access record, and both flow into the same evidence repository for SOC 2, NIST SP 800-207, and PCI audit cycles.
Organizations can also use Aembit’s workload access logs to populate SailPoint’s identity catalog for machine identities, giving governance teams visibility into which workloads are accessing which systems alongside the human access data SailPoint already manages.
SailPoint and Aembit govern different identity populations in the same enterprise environment.
SailPoint handles human identity: provisioning and deprovisioning accounts based on HR events, running access certification campaigns to verify that employees have appropriate access, enforcing role-based separation of duties, and producing compliance evidence that auditors need to see. The model is built around a person, an employment record, and a review cadence.
Aembit handles the other side of that environment: applications, services, AI agents, and pipelines that authenticate to systems without human involvement. These workload identities do not appear in HR systems, do not have joiner-mover-leaver events, and cannot be managed through access certification campaigns. A microservice spins up and down continuously; it does not sit in a quarterly certification review. Aembit governs these identities at runtime, attesting each workload’s identity at the moment of access and issuing short-lived credentials without any stored secret.
There is also a specific risk that SailPoint cannot address: orphaned workload credentials. When a developer creates a service account or API key and later leaves the organization, SailPoint will manage the human’s account through the leaver process but the machine credential typically persists indefinitely, with no owner and no review cycle. Aembit eliminates this structurally. Because Aembit-managed workloads use short-lived, attestation-bound credentials, there is nothing to orphan.
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