CTOs and architects

Stop securing credentials.
Eliminate them.

One cryptographic rail. Every channel. Native MFA by construction.

Your IdP stays. Your codebase stays. The static credentials don't. AI agents authenticate cryptographically instead of holding API keys. Helpdesk and voice verify cryptographically instead of asking for the last four. One ceremony, multiple factors. Production-ready in 14 days.

01Zero static credentials

No API keys, no service-to-service tokens, no embedded secrets. Every connection is cryptographically signed, ephemeral, and scoped to a specific action.

02Native MFA

Multi-factor by construction. One user action, multiple cryptographic factors verified. No layered MFA service. No code to enter. No push to approve.

03AI prerequisite, not afterthought

Static keys at agent scale guarantee a breach. ScrambleID is the cryptographic substrate AI deployment requires, not a nice-to-have.

04Overlay, not rip-and-replace

Your IdP stays. Your codebase stays. Configuration, not code. The cryptographic rail layers on top of what you have. 14 days to production.

The substrate

Credentials, gone. Cryptography, in their place.

Every modern breach has a credential at the root. Stolen API keys, leaked session tokens, social-engineered passwords, embedded secrets in code, vault keys that themselves leak. The ScrambleID rail eliminates the static credential as a primitive. Every connection across your stack becomes a cryptographic proof: ephemeral, scoped, verifiable, revocable. The IdP stays where it is. The codebase stays where it is. The credentials stop existing.

Credential landscape: today vs with ScrambleIDSame enterprise application stack in two states. Today: every connection between services carries a static credential. With ScrambleID: same architecture with a cryptographic rail underneath; every connection becomes an ephemeral cryptographic proof.TodaySIX STATIC CREDENTIALSUserIdentity providerOkta / EntraWeb and mobileCustomer-facingBackendMicroservicesData layerPostgres, RedisSaaS APIsAWS, Stripe, SlackAI agentLLM providerPASSWORD+ SMS OTPOAUTH_TOKENSESSION_TOKENPOSTGRES_PASSWORDAWS_ACCESS_KEY_IDOPENAI_API_KEYSAME ARCHITECTURE. CRYPTOGRAPHIC SUBSTRATE.With ScrambleIDZERO STATIC CREDENTIALSUserIdentity providerOkta / EntraWeb and mobileCustomer-facingBackendMicroservicesData layerPostgres, RedisSaaS APIsAWS, Stripe, SlackAI agentLLM providernative MFAscopedSCRAMBLEID CRYPTOGRAPHIC RAIL

Today

Every connection carries a static credential. Every credential is a latent breach. The IdP, the codebase, and the team can't make this go away.

With ScrambleID

The same architecture. The cryptographic rail underneath. Static credentials don't exist. The IdP stays. The codebase stays.

The gap

Breach evidence is overwhelming. Adoption isn't.

The credential-driven breach pattern is now industrial. Verizon DBIR consistently identifies stolen credentials as the single largest attack vector across years of data. The incidents are a who's-who of the last five years: a CI vendor, a PaaS platform, a rideshare giant, a password manager, an identity provider, two casino giants, a consumer genetics service, a hyperscaler. You know every one of them. The line is rising. The line that should answer it (enterprise deployment of cryptographic identity across non-web channels) is flat.

2021
A CI tooling vendor
Compromised CI credential in the Bash uploader
Credential
2022
A communications-API platform
Smishing harvested employee logins
Credential
2022
A rideshare giant
MFA fatigue, then a hardcoded admin credential in a script
Credential
2022
A password manager
Stolen developer credentials, then the vault backups
Credential
2023
An identity provider's support unit
Stolen session token from a support-case upload
Credential
2023
two casino giants
Help-desk social engineering of an identity reset
Credential
2023
A consumer genetics service
Credential stuffing against reused passwords
Credential
2024
A data-warehouse vendor's customers
Infostealer-harvested logins on accounts without MFA
Credential
2024
A hyperscaler (Midnight Blizzard)
Password spray against a legacy non-MFA account
Credential
2024
A medical-claims clearinghouse
Stolen credentials on a remote portal without MFA
Credential

Every breach above is publicly disclosed. The root cause column is the same word on every row on purpose.

The credential is the breach. Every. Single. Time. Eliminate the credential. The breach class goes with it.

What you're being asked to ship

Every AI promise on your roadmap is gated by an identity primitive.

Six AI initiatives. Six identity gates. The promise lives on a board slide. The reality is "forgot password," "security questions," "hardcoded credentials," "shared API keys." The blocker isn't AI. It's what you authenticate with. One cryptographic substrate eliminates all six gates.

Intelligent Digital Experience

gated by

forgot password?

AI-Powered Customer Support

gated by

security questions

AI Agent Deployment

gated by

hardcoded credentials

AI-Powered Workforce

gated by

password expired

End-to-End Agentic Workflows

gated by

enter MFA code

AI-Native Partner Ecosystem

gated by

shared API keys

The AI transformation you're being asked to lead doesn't get blocked by AI. It gets blocked by what you authenticate with.

How it deploys

One file. Fourteen days.

The full integration surface is a single configuration file. Your codebase doesn't migrate. Your IdP stays. The SDK isn't a heavy import. You write the config, point it at your existing IdP, name the channels you want verified, and ship. From day zero to production in two weeks.

scrambleid.config.yaml18 lines
# The full integration. Everything else stays.
 
tenant_id: ${SCRAMBLEID_TENANT_ID}
 
# Your existing IdP. Unchanged. Source of truth.
identity_provider:
vendor: okta # or entra, ping, forgerock
tenant: ${OKTA_TENANT}
connection_mode: federate # we read attributes, we don't write
 
# Channels where cryptographic verification runs.
channels:
- voice
- web
- frontline
- agent # AI agents and chatbots
- people # helpdesk and human agent
 
deployment_mode: overlay # never replace the IdP
Files added to repo1A single configuration file. New, not modified.
Files changed in codebase0No SDK swap. No service rewrite. No auth call refactor.
IdP migrationNoneOkta, Entra, Ping, or ForgeRock stays exactly as it is.
Deployment cadence
14-day deployment timeline: day 0 to productionA horizontal timeline with five milestones. Day 0: rail configured with IdP. Days 1 to 3: dev environment validation. Days 4 to 7: staging rollout. Days 8 to 10: canary or single-channel production. Days 11 to 14: full production cutover.DAY 0ConfigRail configured with IdPDAYS 1 to 3Dev validationChannel-by-channel auth testsDAYS 4 to 7StagingUser cohort, observability checkDAYS 8 to 10CanarySingle channel in productionDAY 14ProductionAll channels verified

Your codebase doesn't migrate. Your IdP doesn't move. You add one file. Two weeks later you're verified across every channel.

Where we line up

What CTOs benchmark. Where ScrambleID lands.

Passwordless and cryptographic auth is a crowded category. The honest comparison: ScrambleID matches the leaders on FIDO2-grade web and mobile authentication, and lands ahead on the things that actually decide an architecture for a 2026 enterprise. Voice. Helpdesk. AI agent authentication. Deployment as an overlay rather than a system replacement. Production-ready timeline measured in days, not quarters.

Swipe sideways to compare. ScrambleID is the highlighted column.

CapabilityScrambleIDBeyond IdentityHYPRStytchOkta FastPassDuo
Eliminates static credentials-
Native MFA by construction-
Voice channel verification-----
Helpdesk identity verification-----
AI agent authentication*-----
Overlay deployment (no IdP swap)-n/a
Configuration, not code-
14-day production timeline--
Works with existing IdP-n/a
AAL3 aligned (NIST SP 800-63-4)
CoveredPartial or with caveats-Not coveredn/aNot applicable to this category

*AI agent authentication: the cryptographic primitive supports it by construction. Productized agent surface is in active roadmap. See FAQ for the honest status.

Web and mobile passwordless is table stakes now. The differentiation is everywhere else.

Diligence

Architects' questions. Honest answers.

Ten questions a CTO or security architect doing diligence will ask. Where the answer requires a caveat, the caveat is in.

How does this work with our existing IdP?

ScrambleID is the cryptographic verification layer on top of your IdP. Your IdP stays the source of truth for identity, group membership, and policy. ScrambleID handles the cryptographic ceremony at every channel and references your IdP for the attributes it needs. Works with Okta, Microsoft Entra, Ping Identity, ForgeRock, and any OIDC- or SAML-compliant provider. No user migration. No data sync. The IdP stays put.

What's the actual integration scope?

A configuration file in your application, a connector in your IdP, and channel-by-channel rollout. The codebase doesn't migrate. The SDK isn't a heavy import. Production-ready in 14 days end to end, including dev validation, staging rollout, canary, and cutover. See the deployment cadence above.

How does AI agent authentication actually work?

The same cryptographic primitive that secures voice, web, and helpdesk extends naturally to AI agents: a scoped proof tied to the user's specific intent, not a static API key. The proof is ephemeral (good for the specific action authorized), scoped (limited in what it can do), and audit-traceable (the log shows which user's intent the agent acted on). Static keys never enter the agent's environment. The architecture supports this by construction; the productized agent surface is on the active roadmap. Speak with us about your specific deployment.

What's the failure mode if ScrambleID is unavailable?

The cryptographic verification layer is designed with your IdP as the system-of-record, so the IdP's existing auth flow remains the fallback if the rail is unavailable. The application doesn't break. The auth path degrades to the legacy posture (passwords plus whatever MFA you already have on the IdP side). Operational specifics, uptime targets, redundancy posture, and incident response procedures are documented in the commercial contract.

AAL3 alignment, FIDO2 compliance. What can we claim?

ScrambleID's cryptographic ceremony is AAL3-aligned per NIST SP 800-63-4. We don't claim formal AAL3 certification from a third-party lab because that process is for end-to-end systems and depends on your full configuration. We provide an AAL3-aligned implementation and the documentation your auditors need. On FIDO2 and WebAuthn, we use the spec but don't claim formal FIDO Alliance certification we haven't earned. The honest line is "aligned and compliant," not "certified."

Helpdesk verification. What does this look like in practice?

The helpdesk agent triggers verification from their console. The customer completes the cryptographic ceremony on their registered device. The agent's view updates with the verified status. No security questions. No "last four." The verification is cryptographic, tied to the user's identity of record, and auditable. The playbook that shut down a casino giant fails because verbal claims of identity stop being the path through.

Voice channel. How is this not just voice biometrics again?

ScrambleID doesn't do voice biometrics. The voice channel uses cryptographic verification: the IVR announces a short code, the caller enters it on their device (which holds the cryptographic key), the device sends the proof to the rail, the rail verifies and signals the caller is who they claim to be. The caller's voice is not analyzed. AI voice cloning has zero attack surface here because nothing about the voice is verifying anything.

How does this work in our compliance environment (PCI, SOC 2, FedRAMP)?

ScrambleID maintains SOC 2 Type II. On PCI, ScrambleID does not process cardholder data; identity verification sits adjacent to your PCI scope. NIST SP 800-63-4 AAL3 alignment is core. On FedRAMP, the posture and roadmap are available under NDA. We're transparent about what we hold and what we don't; auditors prefer it that way.

What's the workforce vs customer identity story?

ScrambleID works for both. For workforce identity (your employees authenticating to internal systems), the rail rides on top of your workforce IdP (Okta, Microsoft Entra, Ping, ForgeRock). For customer identity (your end users authenticating to your product), the rail rides on top of your CIAM (Okta CIC, Microsoft Entra External, Auth0, your custom CIAM). The cryptographic ceremony is the same. The IdP reference is the difference.

What if we want to leave? What's the migration story off ScrambleID?

Your IdP, your codebase, and your user enrollment data are exactly as they were. The cryptographic verification layer goes away. Your auth reverts to the IdP's native flow. The only thing you lose is the cryptographic verification at non-web channels (voice, helpdesk, AI agent) and the elimination of static credentials. Nothing locks you in. The "reversibility" property is part of why the deployment timeline is days and not quarters.

The diligence questions stay the same. The honest answers change the conversation.

ON THE RAIL

The ScrambleID proof spineA horizontal cryptographic rail. At the point of a consequential action, three gates stack over the rail: in the loop, on the loop, and out of the loop. Past the gate the signed intent to action to execution chain runs along the rail. A neutral early-access label sits in the corner.EARLY ACCESSTHE GATEOut of lineageINDEPENDENT OVERSIGHTOn the loopSUPERVISORY AGENTIn the loopA HUMAN APPROVESONE CRYPTOGRAPHIC RAILSIGNED, END TO ENDINTENTACTIONEXECUTION

The same primitive extends past auth. Over any consequential action an agent takes, three gates and one signed chain from intent to execution, on the rail you already integrate.

See how the rail gates an action

Next

Your agents will outrun token rotation.
A per-request signature never needs rotating.

Architecture review on the calendar. Production on day fourteen.