Clarity Security is an identity security company that helps enterprises govern access for employees, non-human identities and AI agents, and remove risky access as soon as it appears rather than waiting for the next periodic review. It is aimed at security and IT teams who find traditional identity governance slow, audit-driven and hard to run with a small staff.
Its platform, Aperture, is designed to give lean teams a continuous view of who and what holds access, and to act on that risk without a long governance project.
At A Glance
| Vendor | Clarity Security |
|---|---|
| Category | Identity governance, identity security posture management, NHI and AI agent security |
| Identities covered | Employees, contractors, service accounts, API keys, OAuth apps, bots, AI agents |
| Deployment | SaaS, with Clarity Connect for on-premises systems |
| Agentic AI | AI Agent Security module, Clarity Agents for autonomous remediation |
| Certifications | SOC 2 |
| Customers | Technology Credit Union |
What Clarity Does
When access is granted and then only checked months later in a review campaign, risky access sits in place for the whole gap, and much of the review effort goes on collecting evidence. Clarity works on an approach called Adaptive Trust, where every identity is continuously compared with the access it should have and anything risky is fixed straight away.
The pieces fit together around that loop. Identity Explorer and the risk engine show who and what has access and how dangerous it is. Lifecycle management and attribute-based rules decide what access people should have. Remediation closes the gap directly in connected systems, and access reviews then confirm a state that has already been checked. The NHI and AI modules apply the same loop to machine identities and agents.
Products
Aperture
Teams that run several identity tools often still cannot say which access matters most. Aperture, launched in May 2026, is the unified platform that brings all Clarity modules onto one identity graph. At its centre is a dynamic risk scoring engine that weighs inherent and contextual risk for every identity and access relationship, so the riskiest items are handled first.
Identity Explorer
Security teams investigating an account usually find that its real reach is hidden in groups and inherited rights. Identity Explorer shows what any identity can actually do, including inherited and group-based permissions. It maps nested permissions, federated access and blast paths, so teams can see how access was granted, what it connects to and what it would expose if abused.
Lifecycle Management
IT teams lose time setting up and removing access by hand, and late removals leave risk behind. Lifecycle Management automates joiner, mover and leaver processes: birthright access for new starters, changes when people move roles and deprovisioning when they leave. Custom workflows with branching logic handle cases that do not fit the standard path.
Access Reviews
Access reviews are often a quarterly chore for managers and an evidence hunt for compliance teams. Access Reviews runs targeted certification campaigns that are quick to build and complete. Automated scoring flags toxic combinations and high-risk entitlements for reviewers, campaigns can run continuously, and evidence for auditors is produced as part of normal operations.
Attribute-Based Access Control
Large role catalogues are hard to maintain and drift over time. The ABAC module grants and removes access automatically based on attributes such as job title, location, department and employment type. Birthright entitlements are defined once, auto-generated profiles replace large numbers of hand-built roles, and drift from a gold standard of access is detected, so reviews can focus on exceptions.
Reporting
Audit, risk and IT leads need answers about access without exporting spreadsheets. The reporting module, including an Access Reports Generator, builds reports on any data held in Clarity for audits, risk reporting and operational metrics.
NHI And AI Security
Machine identities rarely have a clear owner, so they keep access long after anyone needs it. Launched alongside Aperture, this module extends discovery, governance and remediation to them:
| Discovery | Finds and classifies service accounts, API keys, OAuth apps, bots and AI agents |
|---|---|
| Risk scoring | Maps findings to the OWASP Non-Human Identity Top 10 and tracks risk reduction over time |
| Permission chains and blast radius | Shows the full chain of permissions an NHI holds and how far a compromised one could move |
| Ownership | Assigns an accountable human owner to every NHI |
| Orphaned NHIs | Surfaces unowned, stale and over-privileged identities, with options to reassign, reduce access or disable |
How It Works
| Component | What it does |
|---|---|
| Unified identity graph | Human identities, NHIs and AI agents are first-class entities on one graph, each linked to its accounts, entitlements, owners and systems. |
| Read and write connectors | Connectors both read from and write to connected systems, from legacy mainframes to modern SaaS, so Clarity can change or remove access itself rather than only raise tickets. Each finding has a remediation path: a single click, a bulk action, an automated workflow or agentic remediation. |
| Clarity Connect | An on-premises component connects systems such as on-premises Active Directory, with supporting scripts. |
| Ingestion | Data can arrive through APIs, SCIM, SQL or CSV files, including a flat file integration. |
| Continuous assessment | The risk engine re-evaluates identities and access continuously rather than on a review schedule. |
Identities And Systems Covered
| Workforce | Employees and contractors across the joiner, mover and leaver lifecycle |
|---|---|
| Non-human identities | Service accounts, API keys, OAuth apps and bots |
| AI agents | Agents running across the environment |
| Directories and cloud identity | Active Directory (including complex on-premises forests), Entra ID, Entra ID PIM, AWS IAM, AWS Identity Center, Azure RBAC, Auth0 and Duo |
| Environments | Cloud, SaaS, on-premises and legacy mainframe |
Agentic AI Capabilities
AI Agent Security
The AI Agent Security module discovers and inventories AI agents across cloud, SaaS, on-premises and mainframe environments. Each agent is given an accountable owner and a business purpose, scored for risk and governed with the same lifecycle and review controls as other identities. Because agents sit on the same identity graph, their permission chains and blast radius can be traced in the same way as for any other NHI.
Clarity Agents
Clarity Agents are AI-driven agents inside the platform that carry out remediation, such as deprovisioning orphaned or over-privileged identities, as part of automated workflows.
Integrations
| Area | Integrations |
|---|---|
| HR sources of truth | ADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, Dayforce |
| Finance and spend | Adyen, Blackline, Brex, Concur, Coupa, Expensify |
| Data and integration platforms | Boomi, dbt Labs Cloud, Fivetran, Domo |
| Developer and network | Bitbucket, Cloudflare |
| Collaboration and content | Asana, Atlassian Cloud, Box, DocuSign, Dropbox Business |
| ERP and IT management | Microsoft Dynamics, Dynamics Business Central, Datto Autotask PSA, Datto RMM |
| Secrets managers | Delinea Secret Server, Bitwarden |
Company Background
| Founded | 2020, by Alexis Moyse and Greg Glass, starting with a product to cut the time and cost of user access reviews |
|---|---|
| Offices | Denver, United States (headquarters) and Boston, United States |
| Leadership | Alexis Moyse (Co-Founder and CEO), Greg Glass (Co-Founder and CTO) |
| Funding | A reported $9.0 million Series A led by Venture Guides, with Silverton Partners investing for a third time |
| Partners | A partner programme for resellers, service providers and technology partners |
Note: This overview is compiled from Clarity Security’s publicly available information as of 3 November 2026. It is provided for information only. NHI Mgmt Group does not endorse any vendor, and nothing on this page represents the opinions of NHI Mgmt Group.