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.
Your security stack was not built for agents
The gaps aren't configuration settings you can toggle, they are architectural.
Authenticating humans, apps, services, and workloads.
IAM and NHI do not govern agent lineage, delegation depth, tool intent, or the on-behalf-of chain compliance needs to prove.
Terminating auth, rate-limiting, and forwarding client–server traffic.
Policy matches paths and headers, not whether an agent is acting for a deactivated user, two delegations deep, with scope it was never granted.
Centralizing model access, and observing LLM usage across applications.
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.
Limiting blast radius by restricting what an untrusted process can reach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.