Trust
One identity model for people, services, and machines
Most of the callers hitting your APIs aren't people. ArxLayer gives users, services, and machines a single identity model with scoped access and tenant context, so non-human identities are governed like first-class principals, not afterthoughts.
The problem
Machine identities outnumber humans, and nobody owns them
Services, jobs, scripts, and agents authenticate constantly, often with shared secrets and access nobody scoped on purpose.
Non-human identities sprawl
Workloads, integrations, and agents multiply faster than anyone tracks, each holding credentials and reach.
Over-broad, long-lived access
Machine callers often get the keys to everything because narrowing scope by hand is tedious and risky.
Two systems, two blind spots
Human identity and machine identity live in separate tools, so no single layer enforces both consistently.
What you get
A unified principal model with scope built in
Every caller, human or machine, resolves to a principal with a defined scope and tenant context, enforced at the edge before the origin.
One identity model
Users, services, and machines share a consistent principal model instead of bolt-on credentials per system.
First-class NHI
Non-human identities for workloads, jobs, and integrations are managed objects, not anonymous keys.
Scoped access
Grant each identity only the surfaces and actions it needs, so blast radius stays small by default.
Tenant context
Every identity carries its tenant, keeping multi-tenant access cleanly isolated end to end.
Versioned, reversible policy
Identity and access changes are versioned, reviewable, and roll back in seconds.
Enforced at the edge
Identity decisions apply at the edge before traffic reaches your origin, alongside your other protections.
How it works
From caller to enforced principal
Define identities, scope what they can touch, and let the edge enforce every request.
Register the identity
Create principals for people and machines alike, including the workloads and integrations behind your APIs.
Scope the access
Bind each identity to the tenants, surfaces, and actions it's allowed, no more and no less.
Enforce per request
The edge resolves identity and scope on every request and applies the decision before the origin sees it.
FAQ
Questions, answered
- What is a non-human identity (NHI)?
- An NHI is a machine principal, a service, job, workload, integration, or agent that authenticates and acts on its own, without a person behind each request. ArxLayer governs these the same way it governs users.
- Is this the foundation for agent and machine-to-machine security?
- Yes. The unified identity model gives AI-agent endpoints and machine-to-machine calls a scoped principal and tenant context, which is what request-level enforcement for agents and workloads builds on.
- Does the identity layer hold private keys?
- No. The enforcement layer stores no private keys; certificate lifecycle and key custody live behind separate boundaries.
Give every caller an identity you can scope
Bring users, services, and machines into one model with scoped access and tenant context, enforced at the edge.