# Introducing 1Password® Unified Access: Identity Security for Humans and Their AI Agents

DevFeed: [Introducing 1Password® Unified Access: Identity Security for Humans and Their AI Agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-1password-unified-access-identity-security-for-humans-and-their-ai-agents-1934.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://1password.com/blog/introducing-1password-unified-access>)

Author: info@1password.com (Nancy Wang and Jeff Malnick)

Published: 2026-03-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Blog on 1Password Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-1password-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [local-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local-ai.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>), [unified-access](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/unified-access.md>)

## AI overview

1Password introduces Unified Access Pro, an identity-security offering intended to discover, secure, and audit access involving people, AI agents, and machine identities. The article argues that credentials used by local agents, automation, and development tooling require access to be confirmed when a credential or secret is used.

## Source excerpt

Agentic AI is changing how work gets done inside organizations. It's embedded in IDEs and automation tools, and it's showing up in browsers, internal workflows, and everyday productivity apps. Developers are using AI agents to accelerate engineering work, while knowledge workers are vibe coding apps without training on developer security practices, all of which create untenable risks for organizations. That shift has real implications for identity and access control. For years, identity security centered on login: authenticating the user, establishing a session, applying policy, and assuming authority for the duration of that session. That model worked for human access, but it breaks down when credentials are used by local AI agents, automation scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-native tooling. In this new reality, authority shouldn't be decided once at login and then trusted all day. It should be confirmed right when access is requested, every time a credential or secret is used. That's why we're introducing Unified Access Pro, available today. It helps teams discover, secure, and audit access across humans, agents, and machine identities, so organizations can adopt AI confidently and securely. To learn more about 1Password® Unified Access, head here:https://1password.com/platform Discover risk where traditional identity security systems can't As work shifts to AI agents and automation, more credentials are used outside the identity systems that security teams rely on. It happens on employee devices, inside local development environments, and across browser-based AI tools. Security teams often have little insight into what's happening on employee devices and in the tools they use every day, where credentials are created, stored, and first used. That gap matters. Exposed SSH keys, plaintext .env files, long-lived API tokens, and locally installed agents rarely appear in traditional SaaS logs or federated identity systems. Yet these credentials can grant direct access