The Agentic AI Security Gateway
the security runtime for autonomous AIKenobiTrust is the security gateway that sits between your AI agents and everything they reach for — APIs, models, tools, data. Every agent is identified. Every action is policy-checked. Every call is recorded. In real time, at enterprise scale.
Traditional API gateways weren't built for agents
Autonomous agents take multi-step actions across many systems on behalf of people, teams, and tenants. They need a gateway built for that pattern — one that treats identity, intent, and accountability as first-class concerns, not afterthoughts.
Verified Agent Identity
Every agent is identified and continuously attested at the edge — across sessions, hops, and orchestrator hand-offs. Nothing untrusted ever reaches a downstream system.
Runtime Policy Control
Define what each agent and tenant is allowed to do, reach, and send. Policies live with the gateway — updated in real time, enforced uniformly, never scattered across application code.
End-to-End Accountability
A complete, tenant-scoped record of every agent action and downstream call — ready for audit, incident review, and compliance evidence without instrumenting each agent.
"KenobiTrust ensures autonomous systems operate with accountability, visibility, and trust — not just capability."— KenobiTrust Mission
One gateway. Every agent hop.
KenobiTrust drops in between your agents and the systems they reach for — and stays there. Trust is established on the way in, enforced on the way through, and recorded on the way out. Your application teams never write a single line of trust plumbing.
- Multi-tenant isolation by design
- Real-time policy evaluation at the edge
- Built for multi-agent and orchestrator topologies
- Plugs into the enterprise identity you already run
Identity Architecture for the Agentic Era
Modern enterprises run four identity protocols simultaneously: SAML for legacy SSO, OAuth/JWT for cloud services, mTLS for machine-to-machine, and emerging credentials for AI agents. KenobiTrust unifies all four under one enforcement plane — so identity is consistent across every system, every agent, every hop.
- OAuth 2.0 / JWT validation and key management
- SAML 2.0 assertion processing and IdP federation
- SPIFFE / NHI agent identity issuance
- Mutual-TLS at ingress and egress
- Unified enforcement across all four protocols
Cryptographic Trust & Token Binding
Stolen tokens are the most common breach vector in token-based systems. KenobiTrust brings deep expertise in certificate-anchored credentials — binding every OAuth token to the TLS client certificate that requested it (RFC 8705) and turning stolen tokens into worthless artifacts. Cryptographic trust at the protocol level, not the policy level.
- RFC 8705 token-to-certificate binding
- mTLS handshake, certificate lifecycle, and SNI routing
- Pre-computed key material for sub-ms validation
- Certificate revocation and rotation workflows
- Cryptographically scoped credentials for AI agents
Multi-Tenant Policy & Authorization
In multi-tenant SaaS, one misconfigured policy can leak across every customer. KenobiTrust is engineered for cryptographic tenant isolation — each tenant's routing, authentication, and authorization rules are stored and enforced independently, with zero blast radius across the rest. Pluggable authorization engines let you swap policy languages without changing code.
- Cryptographic per-tenant configuration isolation
- Pluggable authz engines (OPA, XACML, Zanzibar, built-in)
- Declarative policy authoring and versioning
- Real-time policy evaluation at the gateway edge
- Role, attribute, and relationship-based access patterns
High-Performance Gateway Engineering
An identity gateway sits on the hottest path in your architecture — every request, every agent action, every API call. KenobiTrust delivers sub-millisecond enforcement at any volume, engineered for predictable performance under load. Small enough to deploy as a Kubernetes sidecar, hardened enough to run as the busiest gateway tier in your fleet.
- Sub-millisecond request enforcement at any volume
- Predictable performance — no runtime pauses or surprises
- Sidecar, dedicated, or fleet-wide deployment models
- Horizontal scaling and zero-downtime config reloads
- Production telemetry and structured audit logging
The gateway between your agents and everything they touch
KenobiTrust's Agentic AI Security Gateway intercepts, verifies, and enforces policy on every interaction between AI agents and your enterprise systems. Identity, authorization, and runtime governance live at the gateway — so AI systems act safely and accountably, in real time.
What the Gateway does
Agent Identity & Authentication
Every agent presents a verifiable credential before acting. The gateway issues, validates, and revokes agent identities using SPIFFE, JWT, and mTLS — extending your enterprise identity fabric to AI agents.
Policy-Based Authorization
Declarative policies control what agents can access and what actions they can perform. Version-controlled, auditable, and evaluated in real time with sub-millisecond latency.
Token-to-Cert Binding (RFC 8705)
Every OAuth token is cryptographically bound to the TLS client certificate that requested it. A stolen token is worthless without the matching cert — closing the most common breach vector in token-based systems.
Cryptographic Tenant Isolation
Each tenant's routing, policy, and authorization rules are stored and enforced independently. A misconfiguration in one tenant has zero blast radius across the rest — by construction, not convention.
SAML + OAuth in One Gateway
Validate SAML assertions and OAuth tokens on the same route, in the same gateway — no parallel stacks. Bridge legacy SSO and modern token-based services without rewriting either.
Engineered for Production Scale
Sub-millisecond enforcement at any API volume. Predictable performance under load with no runtime pauses or surprises — small enough to run as a sidecar, hardened enough for the busiest gateway tier.
Agentic NHI Routing in Action
Watch how KenobiTrust intercepts every agent request, verifies Non-Human Identity credentials, evaluates policy, and routes approved actions — all in real time.
"KenobiTrust ensures autonomous systems operate with accountability, visibility, and trust — at enterprise scale."— Product Philosophy
Advisory Services
Strategic direction before execution — clarity, risk assessment, roadmap definition
Enterprises are moving quickly toward AI adoption, often without a unified control strategy. Kenobi Advisory Services helps leadership teams define a secure, scalable path forward before architecture decisions are locked in. We work with CIOs, CISOs, and enterprise architects to assess readiness, identify exposure, and design a practical AI governance roadmap aligned to business goals.
- AI readiness and risk assessment
- Identity and access architecture review
- Agent governance strategy design
- Control framework definition
- Executive and board-level AI risk briefing
- Roadmap definition and prioritization
Professional Services
Hands-on execution — secure architecture design, gateway deployment, governance enablement
Enterprises are under pressure to operationalize AI fast while managing rising concerns around security, compliance, identity sprawl, and uncontrolled agent behavior. Kenobi Professional Services moves organizations from AI experimentation to secure, enterprise-scale deployment with structured execution and measurable control. We are the execution partner that ensures your AI strategy is secure, governed, and production-ready from day one.
AI Readiness & Risk Mapping
Assess identity posture, API exposure, data pathways, and agent interaction risks to define a secure foundation before production rollout.
Secure Architecture Design
Design the control layer between AI agents, enterprise systems, and external LLMs — with identity-anchored access, policy enforcement, and auditability built in.
Gateway Implementation & Integrations
Deploy and integrate the Kenobi Gateway into your environment, connecting applications, data sources, and AI agents without disrupting existing workflows.
Governance & Monitoring Enablement
Implement real-time policy enforcement, activity visibility, risk scoring, and compliance alignment to ensure responsible AI operations.
Continuous Optimization
As models evolve and use cases expand, we refine policies, strengthen controls, and scale securely alongside your AI program.
Managed Services
Continuous oversight and operational control — operate, monitor, optimize
AI systems evolve continuously. New agents are introduced, models are upgraded, and integrations expand. Kenobi Managed Services ensures your AI ecosystem remains secure, compliant, and stable over time — so your internal teams are not burdened with maintaining complex AI control environments. Managed Services is about sustained trust and operational resilience.
- Continuous monitoring of agent and API activity
- Policy drift detection and enforcement
- Incident response and anomaly containment
- Performance tuning and optimization
- Compliance reporting and audit support
- Dedicated success engineer
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A $250B+ converged market — and the new $80B category at its center
We are not an IAM company. KenobiTrust spans six established enterprise-software categories — Identity (IAM & PAM), API Security, API Gateway, Zero Trust Network Access, and AI Security & Governance — each backed by tens of billions in current spend and decade-long public-market comparables. The agentic era collapses them into one identity-bound enforcement layer, and the company that defines that layer captures the convergence, not a slice.
Sum of six established 2030 forecasts ≈ $255B. The agentic-AI inflection collapses six buying decisions into one identity-bound enforcement layer — and creates the $80B subcategory we are positioned to lead.
Growth TrajectorySix markets converging into one — agentic AI is the catalyst
The combined Identity, Gateway, and AI-Security infrastructure market is on track to more than triple this decade as enterprises shift from human-only identity (browser sessions, SSO) to machine and agent identity (APIs, autonomous workflows) — and as AI security & governance emerges as a board-level mandate. Agentic AI is the inflection that compresses decades of growth into the next five years.
Demand concentrated in dense enterprise corridors — global, not regional
Identity-aware API and gateway infrastructure spend follows the global enterprise footprint. North America leads — every Fortune 500 is building an agentic-AI roadmap. Europe scales fast under the EU AI Act, NIS2, and DORA, where identity-bound API enforcement becomes a regulatory requirement. APAC growth outpaces both: Singapore, India, and Japan are the fastest-adopting enterprise-SaaS markets globally.
Three forces have converged
The agentic shift
AI agents are about to make billions of enterprise API calls a day. Every one is a new identity. The existing stack was not designed for this scale.
The architecture gap
Identity is fragmented across OAuth, SAML, mTLS, and ad-hoc agent credentials. No incumbent unifies all four in one enforcement plane with cryptographic isolation.
The once-a-decade window
Identity infrastructure rounds-trip once a generation. The company that defines how enterprises secure agentic AI today will be foundational for the decade that follows.
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