Highflame Identity is now open source: agent identity on open standards. Read the launch
WHY HIGHFLAME

Built for agents, not bolted onto tools that weren't

You didn't pick the wrong tools. They just predate the problem. Every layer in your stack was designed for humans and deterministic software, and agents are neither. Highflame is purpose-built for agents.

THE GAP

Your security stack was not built for agents

The gaps aren't configuration settings you can toggle, they are architectural.

IAM & NHI Okta · Entra · Auth0 · Workload Identity
✓ Great at

Authenticating humans, apps, services, and workloads.

✕ Breaks for agents

IAM and NHI do not govern agent lineage, delegation depth, tool intent, or the on-behalf-of chain compliance needs to prove.

API Gateways Kong · Apigee · AWS
✓ Great at

Terminating auth, rate-limiting, and forwarding client–server traffic.

✕ Breaks for agents

Policy matches paths and headers, not whether an agent is acting for a deactivated user, two delegations deep, with scope it was never granted.

AI / LLM Proxies LiteLLM · Portkey
✓ Great at

Centralizing model access, and observing LLM usage across applications.

✕ Breaks for agents

They do not replace long-lived tool credentials, govern delegated authority, track sub-agent lineage, or enforce policy across every tool call and action in a session.

Network Sandboxing Egress denial · agent VMs
✓ Great at

Limiting blast radius by restricting what an untrusted process can reach.

✕ Breaks for agents

The moment a sandboxed agent gets the access it needs to do its job, the sandbox stops being the control. Only identity can authorize correctly.

Across agent incidents, the recurring failure is unmanaged authority

Fix agent identity and authorization at the architecture layer, and the incident class becomes preventable by design.

WHAT'S ACTUALLY DIFFERENT

Don’t just observe AI. Govern what it can do

Highflame governs what agents are allowed to do, across identity, delegation, tool access, revocation, and proof. The capabilities that separate Highflame from the monitors, gateways, and point tools crowding the category.

Most tools observe

The fabric decides

Monitors watch and alert after the fact. Highflame authorizes every action inline and fails closed, an unsafe action is stopped before it lands, not logged after.

A gateway relays traffic

We govern the action

Not another AI gateway. Highflame plugs into any proxy or gateway and decides what an agent is actually allowed to do, derived from its identity, not a static regex.

Point tools fragment

One fabric, one policy

Discovery, identity, authorization, and evidence in one substrate, not one vendor for each, stitched together with three policy languages that never quite agree.

Trust is usually a pitch

Here it's inspectable

The identity core is open source as ZeroID, SPIFFE, OAuth 2.1, RFC 8693, Cedar, deployable in your own VPC. Verify the architecture; don't take our word for it.

ONE FABRIC · EVERY AGENT

See why it holds where the others don't

45 minutes on your real agent footprint, your highest-risk gaps, and what a deployment looks like in your stack.