Apono Joins 1Password

Today, Apono is joining 1Password.

This is a major step forward for the company we set out to build, the customers who helped shape it, and the future of access governance.

When we started Apono, we set out to eliminate the friction that access management creates between security and engineering teams. Access in the cloud was dynamic, but the systems meant to govern it were not. Widespread standing access became an accepted cost of doing business. Engineers waited on tickets. Security teams struggled to answer who had access, who needed it, and for how long. Standing access piled up, and with it, the blast radius grew. For many organizations, the situation became untenable.

We built a platform both sides could get behind. Apono grants access the moment it is needed, scopes it to the task, and revokes it when the work is done. Zero standing privileges, made operational.

Then agentic AI arrived and made the case even clearer. The same static systems that struggled to keep up with modern cloud infrastructure are even less prepared for AI agents. Agents act dynamically, respond to changing inputs, and can be steered in ways traditional policies were never designed to anticipate. It is one of our core beliefs that the access principles Apono pioneered for humans will become even more important with agents: access should be temporary, specific, and tied to the work being done. The market has validated that conviction faster than even we expected.

Two companies with one vision

In 1Password, we have found a partner that shares our vision for where identity security has to go next. More than 180,000 businesses and over a million developers trust 1Password to protect their credentials and critical systems. By adding Apono’s access governance for humans, machines, and AI agents to that ecosystem, we can deliver what the market has been missing: a modern platform that secures the identity lifecycle from the credential to the action, for every kind of identity.

Identity security has long focused on the front door. But much of the real risk begins after authentication: what an identity reaches for, what it is allowed to do, and how long that access remains in place. That is where Apono lives. Bringing that capability into 1Password makes both companies stronger and gives customers a more complete way to govern access across every identity they rely on.

The road ahead

For our customers, the message is clear: the work you trust Apono to do does not change. The platform you rely on continues running, the team you know keeps building, and the roadmap now has even more behind it.

I want to thank the people who made this moment possible. To our customers and partners who bet on a young company and pushed us to be better, thank you. To the Apono team, who turned a strong conviction into a product that engineers actually want to use, none of this happens without you. To the broader 1Password community, we cannot wait to work together to tackle the most critical challenges companies face in the agentic era.

We will also be growing in both our Tel Aviv and NYC offices and helping far more customers secure access for humans and agents!

This isn’t the end, it’s only the beginning. Let’s get back to work.