March 2026 at 1Password: Securing access for humans and AI agents

In March, we introduced 1Password Unified Access – a platform that helps teams discover risk, secure credentials, and audit access across humans, agents, and machine identities. We also shipped some highly requested updates for 1Password Enterprise Password Manager, including Automated Provisioning.

In case you missed it

1Password Unified Access is here

On March 17, we introduced 1Password Unified Access Pro, a new way for organizations to discover, secure, and audit access across humans, AI agents, and machine identities.

As agentic AI embeds itself into IDEs, automation pipelines, browsers, and workflows, the old model of "authenticate once, trust for the session" breaks down. Credentials are no longer just used by people — they're used by local agents, CI/CD pipelines, scripts, and AI-native tools, often outside the visibility of traditional identity systems.

Unified Access tackles this head-on via three pillars:

• Discover. Surface exposed SSH keys, plaintext .env files, long-lived API tokens, and local AI agent activity on employee devices and browsers.
• Secure. Centralize credentials and developer secrets in 1Password Enterprise Password Manager. Then, control how humans, agents, and machine identities access them.
• Audit. Maintain a unified trail of who (or what) accessed which credential and when, across every identity type.

👉 Read the full blog post: Identity Security for Humans and Their AI Agents

Verified emails from 1Password

It should be easy to tell when an email from 1Password is authentic. 

To help you separate potential scams from legitimate emails, we've added a verified authentication indicator to emails from 1password.com, 1password.ca, and 1password.eu, You'll see them in supported inboxes including Gmail, Apple Mail, Fastmail, and Yahoo.

By meeting the strict requirements for verified senders, you can instantly confirm that communication is genuinely from 1Password, and not a phishing attempt.

👉 Read more about how to identify emails from 1Password.

Now available: Automated provisioning hosted by 1Password

Provisioning is now built directly into 1Password – no SCIM bridge to deploy, no servers to maintain, and no ongoing infrastructure overhead. Connect your identity provider, add a URL and token, and you'll be up and running in minutes.

Automated Provisioning is built differently to most hosted provisioning solutions. 1Password's zero-knowledge architecture means our infrastructure can't read your data. Automated Provisioning is powered by a confidential computing enclave, so cryptographic operations happen in isolation — not accessible to 1Password operators or even the underlying cloud provider.

👉 Read the full blog post: Automated Provisioning hosted by 1Password: A Simpler, Smarter Way to Manage Access

Random but Memorable

Two new episodes dropped this month on our Signal and Webby Award-winning security podcast, and both will teach you to be a better detective:

• Everything you need to know about OSINT with Kolina Koltai from Bellingcat
• How to spot AI-generated phishing emails with Bron Gondwana from Fastmail

👉 Reminder: Subscribe to the Random but Memorable YouTube channel to watch video versions of each episode!

Release note highlights 

Browser Extension

• We’ve fixed an issue that would prevent Autofill from working properly on many websites.
• We’ve fixed an issue where turning off the option to offer and fill logins and other items in fields could cause other features to stop working properly.

Mac, Windows, and Linux

• We’ve fixed an issue that could prevent the app from opening and cause a blank screen or error message.
• [Linux only]: You can now select Open Configuration in Settings > Browser to more easily connect the 1Password app to additional browsers.
• [Windows only]: You can now connect additional browsers installed outside of C:\Program Files, making it easier to use browsers installed at the user level.

iOS, and Android

• We’ve fixed an issue that could prevent the app from opening and cause a blank screen or error message.
• [Android only]: You’ll no longer see multiple entries for the same login in your autofill suggestions.
• [iOS only]: We’ve fixed an issue where you couldn’t add an expiration date to an item on an iPad.
• [iOS only]: We’ve improved performance when scrolling in the AutoFill pop-up.
• [iOS only]: In Safari, the extension now locks when the 1Password app locks.