Unified Access Management for Humans & AI | 1Password

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The problem

Modern work extends beyond login sessions

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Unified Access governs how credentials and secrets are used

Discover shadow AI usage, local agents, and exposed credentials across endpoints and environments

Discovery dashboard showing 27 employees using AI apps, 15 code repos influenced by AI, and 113 unique secrets accessible by AI.

Secure access with time-of-use control authorization before authority is exercised

Developer Agent details with OAuth connections for Notion (full access) and Slack (read) under an MCP Gateway identity issue.

Audit when, where, and under whose authority credentials and secrets were used across humans, agents, and machine identities

Audit log showing access requests to Salesforce, Notion, and GitHub by an AI sales agent, an employee, and an automation.

Features

What Unified Access unlocks

Unified AI insights

Get a consolidated view of AI tools and local agent usage across your organization to understand adoption, access risk, and exposure.

Endpoint AI discovery

Identify unmanaged AI tools and agents running on developer devices and surface unmanaged risk before it reaches shared systems.

Unsecured credential discovery

Detect credentials and secrets in local files and developer environments so teams can remediate before they reach CI/CD and production.

Guided risk remediation

Help developers vault exposed credentials, remove risky AI tools and agents, and close gaps without disrupting workflows.

Centralized secure vaulting

Store every credential type in one encrypted vault, giving you a single system of record across humans, agents, and machine identities.

Credential governance

Centralize control of high-risk and shared credentials so IT teams can define who has access without exposing the secret itself.

Runtime credential brokering

Deliver credentials to agents, automation, and CI/CD at runtime to reduce long-lived secrets, limit standing access, and ensure they’re used only when needed.

Unified audit logs

Provide clear attribution for every action, showing who or what used which credential, when, and under whose authority, across humans, agents, and machine identities.

Why Unified Access matters

Unified Access brings discovery, vaulting, time-of-use control, and audit into one system for secure, accountable access across humans, agents, and machine identities.

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Frequently asked questions

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