Aembit
Secretless, policy-based access for workloads and agents at runtime. Group: Workload IAM & runtime access.
Compiled from published analyses — principally the Aembit vendor guide and the 2026 NHI tools survey — and the vendor's own materials. Date verified: 18 August 2026. Not a hands-on assessment; capabilities and pricing move monthly and corrections are welcome via comms.
What it does
Aembit does runtime workload IAM: authenticating workloads, evaluating contextual access policies, and delivering credentials just-in-time so applications and agents hold no stored secrets. Includes blended human-agent identity and an MCP Identity Gateway for agent tool calls.
Key capabilities
- Workload authentication
- Contextual, policy-based access
- Just-in-time credential brokering — no standing secrets
- Blended human-agent identity
- MCP Identity Gateway
Which part of the question it answers
The workload-IAM and runtime-control layer — the commercial buy-side of what SPIFFE standardises, assessed on this site as the broker option. The cited analysis (Aembit's own) notes organisations wanting deep discovery or governance may pair it with IGA/NHI tools.
And for rented agents?
The attestation still happens in infrastructure you control; for rented agents the gateway pattern mediates tool calls without attesting the agent itself. Partial — the assessment is on the options page.
Pricing
Not published; enterprise sales.