The Session Identity Crisis: Why AI Broke IAM — and How Eclypses MTE® Restores Control

AI has outpaced identity security. Machine identities now outnumber human users by 20–50×, and 91% of enterprises experienced identity-related incidents in 2024. Attackers stole 53.3 billion identity records, including nearly 900,000 credentials for enterprise AI systems.

Legacy IAM was designed for static users, not autonomous agents. As AI systems spawn thousands of ephemeral sessions across Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices, the session—not the user account—has become the critical security boundary.

Eclypses MicroToken Exchange (MTE) provides the missing enforcement layer. By cryptographically replacing every payload with a one-time-use MicroToken, MTE eliminates replay, hijacking, and memory-extraction risks while maintaining zero key management and continuous auditability.

Learn more in our use case below!