Close the Access Trust Gap | Extended Access Management | 1Password

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Make identity security match how work actually happens

Modern identity systems were designed for authentication at login. They verify identity once, assign permissions, and assume trust carries forward. That model no longer matches reality.

Discover who or
what has access

Discover AI agents, shared credentials, and business-managed applications across your environment. Build a clear inventory of who and what has access so you can identify risk early and take action before exposure occurs.

Secure access
as it happens

Vault credentials and secrets, and enforce access at the moment it happens. Apply least-privilege controls, verify device context, and govern onboarding and offboarding to ensure humans and agents only access what’s needed.

Audit every
access decision

Log and explain access decisions with clear attribution across humans, machines, and agents. Generate audit trails that connect identity, device, and access activity to support investigations, demonstrate compliance, and ensure authority never outpaces control.

USE CASES

Secure modern work without compromise

Govern AI agent access

Discover and secure AI agent access, on endpoints, in IDEs, and inside AI workflows.

Discover apps you can’t see

Uncover line-of-business adopted SaaS and AI tools across your environment.

Automate SaaS onboarding and offboarding

Automate joiner and leaver workflows, enforce least privilege access for apps, and optimize usage with real activity.

Protect human, machine, and AI credentials

Secure every password, passkey, and secret across SaaS, developers, and AI workflows. Protect what traditional providers can’t reach.

Reduce SaaS spend

Eliminate wasted SaaS spending caused by unused licenses and redundant apps while empowering your users to make informed choices.

Simplify secrets management of your team

Give DevOps teams a secure, centralized way to share and automate access to infrastructure secrets.

Our product suite

The core components
of Extended Access Management

When 1Password® Unified Access, SaaS Manager, and Enterprise Password Manager are together, they deliver trusted access across people, SaaS applications, machines and AI agents.

Unified Access

Unified Access brings discovery, vaulting, context-aware authorization, and
auditing into one system

AI access dashboard showing 27 employees using AI apps and 113 unique secrets accessible by AI; top AI apps include Claude (16.8k usage, 102 users) and ChatGPT (13.4k usage, 75 users).

SaaS Manager

Discover and secure employee access to all apps, whether company-managed or business-unmanaged

SaaS management dashboard showing $1.7M/yr spend, new applications (Box, Intercom, Datadog), and metrics: 243 people, 35 applications managed, 10 app owners needed.

Enterprise Password Manager

Secure access for employees and developers by storing passwords, passkeys, API keys, and secrets in one vault

Dashboard card titled ‘Password risk exposure’ showing 160 weak credentials, 48 reused credentials, and 208 items not using 2FA, with a 679 ‘Moderate risk’ score.

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See Extended Access Management in action

See how 1Password helps you discover, secure, and audit human, machine, and AI agent access.

What is 1Password Extended Access Management?

What is the Access-Trust Gap?

How does 1Password Extended Access Management address the Access-Trust Gap?

What security risks does 1Password Extended Access Management help prevent?

How does Extended Access Management work?

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How is 1Password built for SaaS and AI-native organizations?