Apono, now part of 1Password, is the cloud-native privileged access management platform that grants just-in-time access to humans, machines, and AI agents, then revokes it automatically. Security, IAM, and DevOps teams cut standing privilege risk without parking engineers in a ticket queue.
The problem
Most organizations still run on always-on admin rights that sit unused until an attacker needs them. Security teams fight sprawling roles. Engineers wait on tickets. Auditors ask who touched production, and the answers live in five tools.
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Unused standing privileges pile up across cloud, Kubernetes, and databases, increasing the attack surface.
Apono gives engineers and AI agents the permissions they need, only when they need them. Standing privilege risk drops because access is created at runtime, scoped to the task, and revoked when the work ends. Audit evidence is produced as access already runs, which supports compliance programs without a separate evidence hunt.
Privileged access management (PAM) controls who can use elevated permissions on sensitive systems, for which actions, and for how long. Modern PAM pairs Just-in-Time (JIT) grants with Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) so privileged rights do not linger after the task.
AI Agent Security
Give agents the privileges they need without standing admin access. Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC) on Apono Agent Privilege Guard checks what an agent declares it will do against what it actually does at runtime. Copilots and agents stay inside defined boundaries, and access is revoked when the task ends.
Enforce JIT and just-enough access across identities and environments so ZSP is the default. See who has privileged access, what they are doing with it, and when it expires, without waiting on periodic manual reviews to stay current.
Engineers request and receive access through Slack, the CLI, service workflows, or Apono Assist, wherever they already work. Controls run at request time. Teams stay productive while least privilege stays enforced.
Apono creates roles dynamically based on what is needed, when it is needed, and in the native policy language of AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and your databases. You set business guardrails. Apono writes the short-lived permissions, so you are not maintaining a growing library of pre-built roles.
Legacy PAM often leaves auditors with long session recordings and fragmented logs. Apono logs every request, approval, grant, and revocation with business context. AI-generated session summaries turn review into readable evidence that helps teams produce evidence for SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, and related compliance programs.
See exactly how much damage a compromised AI agent or identity could do across every connected integration in your environment.
Platform Overview
Apono creates IAM roles, permissions, and access policies on the fly at request time, scoped to the exact need and in the native policy language of your cloud platform. No pre-provisioned role sprawl. Access exists only when it is needed, and only for what is required, for any identity that requests it.
Every access decision factors in who is requesting, what they are trying to do, which environment they are touching, and the risk of that action. Policies adapt as the environment changes, without constant manual rewrites of static rules.
As AI agents move into production infrastructure, they cannot inherit standing admin access. Apono gives every agent scoped privileges for its task, then validates intent against actual actions through IBAC.
Every access request, approval, and action is logged with full business context: who received access, what they accessed, when, why it was approved, and what they did. Anomaly detection flags behavior that drifts from normal patterns so audits start from a complete trail.
One Platform, Three Modules
Start with the environments that matter most, then add capabilities as your access requirements evolve.
Foundational
Secure privileged access to on-prem and hybrid infrastructure: databases, Kubernetes, compute, and more. Infrastructure Guard combines account vaulting, MFA-enforced access requests, and dynamic guardrails to enforce ZSP at the infrastructure layer. Every session becomes passwordless, logged, and fully auditable.
Cloud-Native
Apono Privileged Cloud extends ZSP across cloud platforms using provider-native language and dynamic guardrails. Environments change faster than static roles can keep up. Engineers request and receive JIT access through Slack, Teams, Jira, or the CLI.
Agentic-Forward
AI agents cannot wait forever on manual approvals, and they cannot inherit standing admin access. Agent Privilege Guard applies the same JIT model to non-human identities, with IBAC. Every agent declares its intent before acting, and Apono validates that intent against actual actions at runtime.
Why Apono
Legacy PAM still centers standing access. Apono replaces that model with runtime privileges for the AI era.
Many tools depend on pre-configured roles in every environment. That means role sprawl, role libraries to maintain, and static definitions that lag dynamic infrastructure. Apono creates permissions at request time in the native policy language of AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and your databases.
Static rules often stop at “user in group, group on resource.” Apono applies contextual guardrails that weigh what is requested, where it runs, why it is needed, and how risky the action is, so approvals match real risk.
Apono governs engineers, automation pipelines, copilots, and autonomous agents on one cloud-native platform, applying the same ZSP principles to every identity type.
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| Access model | Standing roles; pre-provisioned, persistent, hard to revoke at scale | Runtime privileges; created on demand, scoped to the task, automatically revoked |
| Policy engine | Static rules; user belongs to group, group has access to resource(s) | Contextual guardrails; factors in what, where, why, and how risky |
| User experience | Separate portals, manual approvals, and context switching | Access through CLI, Slack, Teams, Jira, wherever engineers already work |
| Identity scope | Human identities first; weak fit for machines and AI agents | Humans, machines, and AI agents; unified governance |
| Audit trail | Fragmented logs; incomplete context for compliance and forensics | Unified audit trail with full business context |
Customer stories
Integrations
Apono connects to your entire stack out of the box.
If your team already uses it, Apono already works with it.
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Okta
Entra ID
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Databricks
GitHub
GitLab
Slack
MS Teams
Jira
PagerDuty
Datadog
Snowflake
85+ out-of-the-box integrations across cloud, identity, infrastructure, DevOps, and ITSM.
Join teams that replaced standing privileges with JIT access across cloud, infrastructure, and AI environments, without parking engineers in a ticket queue.
