$1B just poured into machine identity because your AI agents have no cryptographic souls

Keyfactor just closed a $1B+ investment from Summit Partners.

Not for cloud. Not for AI models. For machine identity.

Here is the problem your CISO is not talking about in board meetings.

Every AI agent you deploy creates a machine identity. Every workload, every API call, every autonomous process running in your environment has a cryptographic identity that most enterprises cannot see, manage, or revoke.

Machine identities already outnumber human identities by orders of magnitude. And they multiply faster than any team can track.

Keyfactor already manages billions of these identities. They cover 50% of the largest US and European banks. 80% of major US retailers. Over 40% of the Fortune 100.

The White House just issued executive orders in June 2026 forcing the transition to post-quantum cryptography ahead of 2030. Every certificate, every key, every identity your organization runs will need to be migrated. Most enterprises have no inventory of what they are running.

This is the new attack surface. Not your firewall. Not your VPN. The cryptographic identities your AI agents use to talk to each other and to your systems. If you cannot see them, you cannot secure them. If you cannot revoke them, you cannot respond to a breach.

Audit your machine identity inventory today. If your security team cannot tell you how many certificates are active, how many are expiring in the next 90 days, or which AI agents hold cryptographic keys, you are already exposed.

The enterprises that win the AI era will be the ones that solved trust infrastructure before it became a crisis. Keyfactor just raised $1B because that crisis is now.