Agentic AI Identity Security

Register every agent as its own identity, with a named human owner, its job function and business use, and the access profiles it is allowed to check out. Agents authenticate through standards-based methods including SPIFFE SVID, OIDC federation, and API tokens, resolved on every request. Britive governs the whole lifecycle, from onboarding through execution to removal.

Access decisions are made at runtime, per action. Policy is evaluated against the identity, the request, the target, and the conditions around it, and the default is deny, so an action no policy allows cannot run. For the actions you designate as sensitive, Britive blocks the action and the access provisioning behind it until a person approves.

Remove hard-coded secrets and static API keys from agent configurations. For supported targets, Britive raises the agent's permissions inside the target system's own access model and issues the agent no privileged credential at all. Where a target requires a credential, Britive creates it at request and destroys it when the task ends. The agent never holds a privileged credential, and nothing privileged remains between tasks.

Every tool call an agent makes through Model Context Protocol is intercepted and authorized before it runs. An agent sees only the tools it is entitled to, and each call is checked again at execution. Britive holds the connection credentials for your downstream servers and uses them on the far side of the gateway, so the agent never holds one.

Every authorization decision, privilege creation, and revocation is recorded as access happens, tied to the identity that received it. Records stream to your SIEM and SOAR alongside non-human and human access activity. Inbound risk signals from your identity and security stack, using the Shared Signals Framework for CAEP and RISC events, can revoke an active checkout while the agent is still mid-task.

Onboard agent identities once and govern them the same way wherever they operate. One policy model covers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, SaaS applications, databases and servers, and on-prem systems that still authenticate with credentials rather than tokens, so agents are not governed differently in each place they work.

Agents increasingly call other agents. Britive keeps authority scoped through the chain: an agent that hands work to another agent cannot pass along more than it holds, and an agent acting for a person never exceeds that person's authority. Britive is designed to support emerging standards such as A2A as they mature.