CyberArk Software Ltd.
Secretless and secure authentication of network resources

Abstract:

Disclosed embodiments relate to secretless and secure communications with access-protected network resources. Techniques include identifying a request from a client service to access an access-protected network resource; automatically identifying an identity token uniquely associated with the client service for enabling autonomous authentication of the client service using the identity token; providing, from a secretless connection broker to an authentication credential provider, the identity token uniquely associated with the client service; receiving, from the authentication credential provider, based on the identity token and conditional on successful authentication of the client service, a connection credential; establishing a secure connection with the access-protected network resource using the connection credential; and exchanging secure communications with the access-protected network resource.