Secure AI Agents and MCP Tools with Zero Trust Identity

Eliminate Static Keys. Automate Identity. Secure every AI workflow with ephemeral certificates, hardware-backed identities, and automated certificate lifecycle management.

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The Problem with AI and MCP Automation

AI agents and MCP-based automation tools are rapidly transforming how infrastructure, DevOps, and applications operate. But most AI tools authenticate using API keys, tokens, or shared credentials, which violate Zero Trust principles and create major security risks.

Problems with API Keys:

  • Long-lived API keys: that never expire.
  • Credential Leaks: API keys accidentally show up in logs, Git history, or AI prompts.
  • Shadow AI Access: Credentials get embedded in untracked AI workflows.
  • Identity Crisis: There is no strong, unique identity for individual AI agents.
  • Rotation Fatigue: It’s nearly impossible to rotate secrets without breaking production.
  • Trust by Default: You can't enforce Zero Trust when keys last for years.

The BastionXP Zero Trust Security Solution for AI Agents and MCP Tools

BastionXP provides a Zero Trust identity platform for AI agents and MCP tools using automated certificate issuance via ACME.

Instead of API keys, AI agents authenticate with short-lived X.509 certificates issued dynamically.

Key Benefits:

  • Cryptographic identity for AI agents
  • Hardware-backed attestation (TPM / device attestation).
  • Short-lived certificates instead of long-lived secrets.
  • Fully automated identity lifecycle and certificate rotation.
  • Policy-based access control.
Automated Certificate & Key Management

BastionXP PKI/CA automates X.509 & SSH certificate creation, signing, distribution, rotation and revocation.

Identity Based Access Control

Certificates are tied to device, host and end user identity. Certificates are issued only after hardware-rooted device attestation or OIDC login.

Short-Lived Certificates

Issues short-lived SSL/TLS X.509 certificates to devices, workloads and end users, eliminating the security risks associated with long-lived certificates.

Zero Trust Security

Generates SSL/TLS X.509 server and client certificates for mutual TLS(mTLS) authentication and end-to-end encryption.

Auditing & Compliance

All activities and events are logged to provide a detailed log trail for auditing and compliance purposes. Logs can be analyzed later using a log analyzer to identify anomaly.

Role Based Access Control

Supports SCIM integration with your Identity Provider(IdP). Assign roles to your team members and restrict access to your enterprise resources using RBAC policies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is BastionXP?

    BastionXP is a Zero Trust Security Platform that uses hardware-rooted device attestation to provide passwordless and certificate based WiFi and VPN access for enterprise managed devices. BastionXP issues short-lived certificates to all endpoints.

    BastionXP integrates with your MDM to automate hardware-rooted device certificate lifecycle management, so that only company approved devices can access resources such as WiFi, VPN and SaaS apps.

  • Yes. Please write to us for the Enterprise Free Trial Version of BastionXP. We can offer the free trial as a self-hosted or cloud-hosted solution.

  • BastionXP Enterpise Version supports:

    a) Private PKI/CA and ACME server that issues SSL/TLS X.509 certificates and keys based on hardware-rooted device attestation for Apple Devices.

    b) Integrates with your favorite MDM such as Jamf, Fleet DM and others.

    b) Integrates with Google G-Suite, Microsoft Office 365, Okta, Keycloak, and AWS IAM based SSO/OAuth.

    c) Role Based Access Control using Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Okta, Keycloak or any IAM.

    e) Priority customer support.

  • BastionXP solution is a cloud native application that is cloud vendor agnostic. It works seamlessly in any cloud including AWS, GCP, Azure or Digital Ocean cloud.

  • Yes. We offer a cloud hosted version of BastionXP as a SaaS offering. You can try the cloud version for free for 30-days. No credit card required. Please write to us to learn more about the SaaS offering.

  • Please write to [email protected] for sales, queries, pricing and demo request.

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