Athenz
Open SourceFundedOpen source platform for X.509 certificate based service authentication and access control
About Athenz
Athenz is an open source identity and access management platform designed for dynamic cloud and hybrid infrastructures. It provides service authentication using short-lived X.509 certificates and fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC) with industry standard JWT tokens. The platform enables secure communication among workloads through mutual TLS (mTLS), supporting zero trust security principles such as traffic encryption, authentication, authorization, and least privilege access.
Targeted at enterprises managing complex hybrid environments and Kubernetes clusters, Athenz addresses challenges around workload identity, secure API authentication, and centralized authorization management. It supports issuing service identities for container workloads, enabling them to authenticate with Kubernetes APIs and establish secure service-to-service communication. Additionally, Athenz facilitates issuing AWS temporary credentials for on-premises services, eliminating the need for static AWS IAM credentials. Its extensible APIs and integration capabilities make it suitable for large-scale cloud platforms seeking a single source of truth for service identity and authorization.
Key Capabilities
- ✓X.509 certificate based service authentication
- ✓Fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC)
- ✓Mutual TLS (mTLS) for secure workload communication
- ✓Centralized OAuth2 token service for authorization
- ✓AWS temporary credentials issuance for on-prem services
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