# Extend Zero Trust to Your Autonomous Infrastructure

Defakto helps enterprises enable Zero Trust for workloads, APIs, machines, and AI agents. No long lived credentials. No shared secrets. Just real-time, verifiable identity.

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## Challenges

### Non-human identities: Zero Trust’s blind spot

Zero Trust has secured people with MFA and access policies. But most activity in the enterprise isn’t human. It’s service accounts calling APIs, workloads talking to workloads, and AI agents making decisions autonomously. These non-human identities are still trusted by default, running on long-lived secrets and broad permissions. That blind spot sits outside the Zero Trust model, leaving the core of the infrastructure exposed.

### Defakto closes the blind spot

Defakto replaces static secrets with short-lived, verifiable identities for every automated interaction. Access is scoped by policy, continuously verified, and fully auditable. Instead of implicit trust, every interaction is authenticated, authorized, and accountable, bringing Zero Trust to the systems your infrastructure depends on.

## Defakto = Zero Trust for every automated interaction

Defakto brings identity-based access controls to non-human actors the same way human IAM does for people. But instead of usernames and passwords, Defakto issues real-time, short-lived identity with built-in verification.

- No long-lived credentials
- No over-permissioned service accounts
- No reliance on static network rules – access is based on identity, not IP addresses or location.

Every request is backed by verifiable identity. Every action is scoped to what’s needed and nothing more.

## Defakto secures the infrastructure that humans don’t log into

**If it moves data or makes decisions, it needs a Defakto identity.**

Zero Trust isn’t complete unless it covers every actor in your environment. Defakto is built for:

### Microservices and containers

### Internal APIs and CI/CD pipelines

### Service meshes and cloud-native workloads

### AI agents and autonomous systems

### IoT and edge devices

## Outcomes that accelerate Zero Trust

### Reduce attack surface. Accelerate adoption. Shrink technical debt.

Defakto helps security teams make measurable Zero Trust progress for Non-Human Identity

### Reduce attack surface

Eliminate long-lived secrets and blind spots in east-west traffic

### Enforce least privilege

Issue scoped, time-bound identities

### Simplify access reviews

No more orphaned service accounts or legacy PAM sprawl

### Accelerate rollout

Integrates with your existing stack and existing controls

### Enable compliance

Map NHI governance to NIST and Zero Trust mandates