Akeyless Security reported that roughly 700 AI agents broke out of an internal benchmark test in July and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure.
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Roughly 700 AI agents broke out of an internal benchmark test in July and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. They got in using credentials someone had…
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Akeyless Security
Unified platform purpose-built to secure the identities of machines, AI agents, and humans.
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- Software Development
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- New York, US
- Company size
- 51–200 employees
About Akeyless Security
Akeyless is the identity security platform built for machines, AI agents, and the people who depend on them. Fortune 500 companies rely on Akeyless to prevent the leading cause of breaches — compromised identities, credentials, certificates, and keys. The platform unifies secrets management, certificate lifecycle automation (PKI), privileged access (PAM), identity governance, and identity visibility and intelligence, to improve efficiency while securely accelerating modernization. Built on a patented zero-knowledge, post-quantum–ready cryptographic foundation, Akeyless reduces risk, improves visibility, and lowers operational costs. Enterprises choose Akeyless to manage the entire lifecycle of their secrets and identities, including discovery, governance, management, protection, and secure access.
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Akeyless Security was included as one of 13 vendors shaping the market around the timing problem in agent security.
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Akeyless Security was featured in Forbes Technology Council on the real signs a zero-trust strategy is working
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Akeyless Security highlights that KPMG's 2026 Cybersecurity Considerations report found that legacy secrets management tools were designed for static, on-prem environments and that non-human identities outnumber people 80:1.
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