Identity is no longer a one-time authentication challenge. Over the past decade, SaaS has accelerated decentralized software adoption, and single sign-on improved control at login, but neither addressed how credentials are used after authentication. Today, employees deploy agents that call APIs and execute workflows on their behalf, expanding risk to the secrets and tokens used programmatically across modern environments.
To address this 1Password is launching 1Password Unified Access, a new agent security platform that enables organizations of all sizes to securely deploy AI agents and automated workflows without losing control of credentials, secrets, and machine identities.
“Agents are now operating inside real production environments,” says David Faugno, CEO of 1Password. “1Password is deployed on millions of endpoints and protects over 1.3 billion credentials and secrets. As the platform organizations rely on to initiate secure access to applications and infrastructure worldwide, we are uniquely positioned to address the identity and access challenges introduced by agents and machine workloads. Unified Access provides the control plane organizations need to scale AI safely.”
Unified Access has two features available now, Discover allows teams to find AI tools and agent activity across endpoints, browsers, and local environments, identify exposed credentials and secrets such as unencrypted SSH keys and plaintext .env files, and map AI usage to specific users and devices.
Secure protects exposed secrets with one-click vaulting, governance of human, agent, and machine credentials in a unified vault, and the ability to apply controls to high-risk or shared accounts.
Coming later will be Audit with end-to-end visibility into credential access across human and non-human activity, with clear records of which credential was used, when, by which identity, and under whose authority.
It offers integration with a number of popular tools for foundation model development, AI infrastructure and storage, AI developer tools, and AI browsers.
You can read more on the 1Password blog.
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