# Aembit

> Aembit is a Silver Spring, Maryland cybersecurity company that applies identity and access management to software workloads and AI agents. Its cloud control plane verifies a machine's identity and runtime context, evaluates centrally managed policy, and supplies short-lived credentials only when access is approved. The approach is designed to replace embedded secrets and shared service accounts across cloud, SaaS, data-center, CI/CD, database and MCP environments.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- **Founders:** David Goldschlag (CEO and Co-founder), Kevin Sapp (CTO and Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 51-200 employees on LinkedIn; the supplied company record lists 47 employees
- **Products:** Aembit Workload IAM Platform, Aembit Edge, IAM for Agentic AI, MCP Identity Gateway, MCP Authorization Service
- **Notable:** Named a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security., Top 10 finalist and later Top 2 finalist in the 2024 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox competition., Finalist for Best Identity Management Solution in the 2024 SC Awards.

## Products & services

- **Aembit Workload IAM Platform** — A SaaS identity control plane that discovers, manages, enforces and audits workload-to-workload access, using identity attestation, policy and just-in-time credentials.
- **Aembit Edge** — Enforcement components deployable as Kubernetes sidecars, agents, serverless extensions or virtual machines for transparent credential injection and policy enforcement.
- **IAM for Agentic AI** — Controls access by AI agents using blended agent-and-user identity, policy, short-lived credentials and detailed attribution.
- **MCP Identity Gateway** — A data-plane gateway for policy enforcement, token exchange and credential isolation when AI agents access MCP servers and tools.
- **MCP Authorization Service** — OAuth-based authorization services that issue policy-scoped access for AI agents and MCP connections.

## Achievements

- Named a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security.
- Top 10 finalist and later Top 2 finalist in the 2024 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox competition.
- Finalist for Best Identity Management Solution in the 2024 SC Awards.
- Ranked No. 43 on Fast Company's 2025 Best Workplaces for Innovators list.
- Named Overall ID Management Solution of the Year in the 2025 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards.
- Achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification and SOC 2 compliance.
- Raised nearly $45 million in disclosed capital by September 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Expanded workload IAM support across Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID and Azure.
- **2025-09** — Ranked No. 43 on Fast Company's 2025 Best Workplaces for Innovators list.
- **2025-10** — Introduced IAM for Agentic AI with Blended Identity and the MCP Identity Gateway.
- **2025-12** — Added Jenkins CI/CD support for identity-based, short-lived access.
- **2026-04** — Made IAM for Agentic AI generally available and introduced an Aembit MCP server for querying identity activity.
- **2026-06** — Added support for Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, Azure Databricks pipelines and Oracle Database protocol.
- **2026-07** — Announced a Snowflake integration for governing third-party AI-agent access and preserving user-plus-agent attribution.

## Links

- Website: https://aembit.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aembit/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/aembit_io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aembit

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Last updated: 2026-08-18