An access graph and authorization intelligence platform that maps effective permissions across cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and data systems for both human and non-human identities, providing visibility into who can do what across the enterprise.
Veza builds a continuous access graph across cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and data systems: mapping effective permissions for both human and non-human identities, identifying over-privileged accounts, surfacing access paths that create risk, and generating the evidence that compliance workflows need. It works well as an authorization intelligence layer: telling organizations what access exists, how it was granted, whether it is appropriate, and who can reach what across a complex multi-cloud environment. The gap is at runtime. Veza maps what access exists and provides intelligence about risk, but it does not mediate the actual authentication event when a workload makes a request, cannot eliminate the static credentials that underpin the access paths it is mapping, and does not enforce access policy at the moment of each connection. Aembit operates at the runtime enforcement layer. It attests workload identity cryptographically at the moment of access, issues short-lived credentials that never persist in the environment, and eliminates the static credential surface that Veza is analyzing. For environments where static credentials remain, Aembit’s attestation logs provide the continuous runtime behavioral data that enriches Veza’s access graph with actual usage evidence rather than theoretical access paths.
For workloads and AI agents that authenticate to APIs, databases, cloud services, or data systems, Aembit replaces the static API keys, service account credentials, and long-lived tokens that underpin the access paths Veza maps. When a workload authenticates through Aembit, it uses a short-lived, identity-bound credential issued at the moment of access and never stored. There is no persistent credential to map, no static permission to analyze, and no access path built on a long-lived secret.
Veza’s access graph depends on credentials and permissions existing in a stable form for long enough to be discovered and analyzed. Aembit progressively reduces that surface for the workloads it governs. The risk that Veza identifies — an over-privileged service account, a credential with broader access than its workload needs — remains a live attack surface until someone acts on it. Aembit eliminates that surface structurally for the workloads it covers, reducing the scope of what Veza needs to govern.
Veza’s access graph shows what access exists. Aembit’s attestation logs show what access was actually used. The two data sources are complementary.
Veza maps effective permissions by querying cloud APIs, SaaS connectors, and data system integrations to build a picture of who can do what. That picture is a snapshot of theoretical access capacity. It does not show which permissions are actively exercised, by which workloads, how often, or under what conditions.
Aembit’s attestation-based audit logs provide that behavioral layer: a continuous record of which attested workloads authenticated to which services, under which access policy, and at what time. Organizations that feed Aembit’s runtime logs into Veza’s access graph analysis get a richer picture: theoretical access capacity (from Veza’s permission mapping) combined with actual access behavior (from Aembit’s attestation data). This combination improves the accuracy of risk prioritization — dormant credentials become identifiable as dormant rather than just over-privileged — and produces compliance evidence that covers both entitlement state and runtime access behavior.
Veza and Aembit operate at different layers of the same access governance problem.
Veza handles authorization intelligence across the full identity population — human and non-human — in a multi-cloud, multi-SaaS environment: building the access graph, mapping effective permissions across complex authorization chains, surfacing risk through its authorization intelligence layer, and generating the evidence that access reviews and compliance workflows need. It is a visibility and governance platform that operates asynchronously, analyzing what has been granted rather than mediating what is currently being accessed.
Aembit operates synchronously at the enforcement layer for non-human workload access: attesting the workload’s runtime identity at each access event, evaluating conditional access policy, and issuing short-lived credentials that expire after the request. It does not build an access graph and does not analyze authorization across the enterprise. Those remain Veza’s job.
Together the two tools provide layered coverage: Veza governing access visibility and intelligence across the full identity estate, Aembit enforcing runtime access policy for the non-human workloads it governs. Neither tool is redundant.
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