Agentic Access Management built for your current and future environments
Apono replaces standing privileges by creating access dynamically at runtime – scoped to the exact need, enforced in context, and automatically revoked. One platform for humans, machines, and AI agents across your entire cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
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Standing privileges are your biggest security liability
96-99%
Percentage of standing access that goes unused
And 88% of attacks exploit existing privileges, making your biggest attack surface one you can control.
87%
Amount of admins' time that's wasted on managing access
This lost productivity time is compounded when your attack surface is bloated with excess standing privileges.
$300K+
The average cost of a single hour of downtime
When access is managed manually with static roles and fragmented policies, misconfigurations are inevitable. The cost isn't just a security problem, it's an operational one.
See how agentic access can put your environment at risk
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Apono was built to break this cycle.
Security that enables.
Apono gives engineers and AI agents exactly the permissions they need, only when they need them. Standing privilege risk is eliminated, compliance is enforced automatically, and security becomes an enabler instead of a bottleneck.
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Eliminate standing privilege risk
Achieve zero standing privileges by enforcing just-in-time and just-enough access continuously across every identity and environment. Get complete visibility into who has privileged access, what they're doing with it, and when it expires without relying on manual reviews or periodic audits to stay in control.
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Accelerate without blocking
Engineers request and receive access through Slack, CLI, service workflows, or Apono's AI assistant – wherever they already work. Security controls happen at request time, not as a manual approval bottleneck. Teams stay productive while least privilege stays enforced.
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Scale without role sprawl
Apono creates roles dynamically based on what's needed, when it's needed, and in the native policy language of AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and your databases. You define your business guardrails, and Apono handles the rest. No pre-built role libraries to maintain as your environment grows.
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Deploy AI agents safely
Give agents the privileges they need without giving them standing admin access. Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC) validates in real time what an agent declares it will do against what it actually does. Copilots and autonomous agents operate within defined boundaries, with access revoked the moment they step outside them.
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Pass audits effortlessly
Legacy PAM hands auditors long session recordings and fragmented logs. Apono hands them answers. AI-generated session summaries replace hours of video review with an instant, readable audit trail. Every access request, approval, and session action is automatically logged with full business context.
One platform. Every identity. Zero standing privileges.
Apono replaces static, manually pre-defined access with runtime authorization that adapts to your environment. Grant access based on dynamic guardrails built around real business context, whether you're managing engineers in a multicloud infrastructure or deploying AI agents.
How Apono Works — Platform Diagram
Runtime Privilege Orchestration
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 roles or credential sprawl. Access exists only when it's needed, and only for what's required, regardless of the identity requesting it.
One platform, three modules. Deploy what you need, when you need it.
Apono's modules are independently deployable and built to work together. Start with the environments that matter most and expand as your environment and needs evolve.
Apono Infrastructure Guard
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Secure privileged access to your on-prem and hybrid infrastructure: databases, Kubernetes, compute, and more. Infrastructure Guard combines account vaulting, MFA-enforced access requests, and dynamic guardrails to enforce zero standing privileges at the infrastructure layer. Every session becomes passwordless, logged, and fully auditable.
Learn about Apono Infrastructure Guard →
Apono Privileged Cloud
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Legacy PAM wasn't built for the cloud. Apono Privileged Cloud extends zero standing privileges across your cloud platforms using provider-native language, enforcing dynamic guardrails across environments that change faster than static roles can keep up with. Engineers request and receive just-in-time and just-enough access through the tools they already use like Slack, Teams, Jira, or CLI. No portal jumping, no context switching, and no standing risk.
Learn about Apono Privileged Cloud →
Apono Agent Privilege Guard
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AI agents can't wait for manual approvals, but they can't inherit standing admin access either. Apono Agentic Access applies the same just-in-time methodology to non-human identities, with one critical addition: Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC). Every agent declares its intent before acting, and Apono validates that intent against actual actions in real time, revoking access the moment an agent operates outside its declared scope.
Learn about Apono Agent Privilege Guard →
All three modules share a unified policy engine, privilege orchestrator, and audit trail, so adding new capabilities never means starting over.
Most PAM vendors retrofitted their tools for the cloud. Apono was built for it.
Legacy PAM was built to manage existing standing privileges. Apono was built to eliminate them. That's not an upgrade, it's a fundamentally different approach.
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Runtime privilege creation, not predefined roles
Most tools depend on pre-configured roles in every environment, which means managing sprawl, maintaining role libraries, and hoping your static definitions keep up with a dynamic infrastructure. Apono creates permissions dynamically at request time, in the native policy language of AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and your databases. No pre-provisioned roles, and no sprawl to maintain.
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Dynamic guardrails, not static policies
Legacy PAM asks one question: does this user belong to this group? Apono asks four: what do they need to do, where do they need to do it, why do they need access, and how risky is the action? That context-aware approach means your policies adapt as your environment scales, without someone manually updating rules every time something changes.
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Built for every identity type
Legacy PAM wasn’t designed for non-human identities, and retrofitting it doesn’t work. Apono governs engineers, automation pipelines, copilots, and autonomous agents through a single cloud-native platform – applying the same zero standing privilege principles to every identity type – for access control that keeps pace with how modern environments actually operate.
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| Access model | ✗ Standing roles; pre-provisioned, persistent, and difficult to revoke at scale | ✓ Runtime privileges; created on demand, scoped to the task, and 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 required | ✓ Access through CLI, Slack, Teams, Jira, etc. – wherever your engineers already work |
| Identity scope | ✗ Human identities only; not designed for machines or AI agents | ✓ Humans, machines, and AI agents; unified governance across every identity type |
| Audit trail | ✗ Fragmented access across tools; incomplete context for compliance and forensics | ✓ Unified audit trail with full business context; who, what, when, why, and what they did |
OpenWeb
“Apono eliminated delays and excessive privileges. Everyone who needs access can get it very easily, and we really reduced the amount of overprivileged accounts that we had.”
— Yaron Blachman, CTO & CISO, OpenWeb
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Access that works where your team already does
Apono connects to your entire stack out of the box. No custom connectors, no rip-and-replace. If your team already uses it, Apono already works with it (and if we don't, we'll add it).
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85+ out-of-the-box integrations across cloud, identity, infrastructure, DevOps, and ITSM.
Stop managing standing access. Start eliminating it.
Join the organizations that have eliminated standing access across their cloud, infrastructure, and AI environments without slowing their teams down.