Stop credential theft at the source.
The fastest way for an attacker to own your company isn't to break in — it's to quietly copy your credentials and walk out with them. CredentialProtect is the anti-stealer engine that guards the files where your most sensitive secrets live, so anything trying to steal them is stopped before a single password, token, or key ever leaves the machine.
Part of the 1stProtect platform. One agent. No slowdown.
Direct answer
CredentialProtect applies runtime guardrails using user-space interception on the single SIGMA engine, so every action is evaluated before execution. It can enforce policy online or offline and coordinate with the on-host MCP gateway to preserve forensic context, reducing false positives while stopping unauthorized behavior at the action layer.
A whole class of malware — info stealers — exists for one purpose: to grab your secrets and ship them to an attacker. One stolen set of cloud credentials can hand over your entire organization. And the tools you already own often can't see it coming:
They sit quietly in the background, copy your saved passwords, cloud tokens, and SSH keys, and upload them to an attacker — usually before anyone notices anything happened.
Attackers borrow the legitimate tools already built into Windows to do the stealing. To most security tools, that looks like normal activity — so it gets waved right through.
CredentialProtect guards the credentials themselves — so it doesn't matter what's doing the asking.
How it works
Protect the files where your passwords, cloud logins, access tokens, and SSH keys live — the things attackers want most.
The moment something tries to read those secrets without permission, it's stopped and flagged. Obvious malware or a trusted tool being misused — both get the same answer: no.
Every attempt is captured, so you can see exactly what reached for your credentials and when — for the board, the auditor, or the incident review.
One engine. 22 modules.
It runs on the same single SIGMA engine as the rest of 1stProtect — working alongside IdentityProtect and ADProtect to shut down identity attacks, and ExfilProtect and DataProtect to stop anything from leaving the host. One agent, one policy, no conflicts — online, offline, or fully air-gapped.
What it keeps safe:
See it in action
Protection off — the attacker wins. A stealer runs loose on the machine, gathers up cloud credentials and SSH keys, bundles them together, and uploads them to the attacker's server. From there, those keys are ready to be used against the business.
Protection on — the theft never happens. Turn CredentialProtect on and run the very same attack. It detects the attempt, raises an alert, and blocks access to the files. The malware comes away empty-handed.
The sneaky version — still stopped. Now the attacker gets clever and uses a trusted, built-in Windows tool to quietly send the credential file out, hoping it blends in. CredentialProtect blocks it anyway. A trusted tool doing an untrusted thing gets stopped just the same.
Deploy without breaking anything
CredentialProtect ships in Audit Mode by default. Watch exactly what's reaching for your credentials — and exactly what would be blocked — without stopping a single thing. Baseline your environment, whitelist what's legitimate, then flip to Enforcement Mode with one config change.
No slowdown
<1% CPU overhead · <100ms enforcement latency
Works anywhere
Cloud · on-prem · Kubernetes · 100% offline / air-gapped
Your data stays on your metal
Raw telemetry never leaves the device · TLS 1.3 · SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001
Built by the people who built the industry
1stProtect's team comes from CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Check Point, Splunk, Cisco, Oracle, McAfee, Symantec, and NTT Data — the engineers who defined modern endpoint security, now building runtime protection for what comes next.
We'll deploy in Audit Mode and show you, in your own environment, exactly what's reaching for your credentials today — then stop it.
Product FAQ
CredentialProtect is an anti-stealer engine that guards the files and memory locations where your most sensitive secrets live — passwords, cloud tokens (AWS, Azure, GCP), SSH keys, and browser sessions. It blocks any unauthorized attempt to read them before a single secret can leave the machine.
CredentialProtect monitors access to credential storage locations at the OS level via the SIGMA engine. When any process — including malware or an abused trusted tool — attempts an unauthorized read of a credential file or memory region, the attempt is terminated immediately. It operates before the secret can be exfiltrated, not after.
Yes. CredentialProtect specifically guards AWS credential files, Azure tokens, GCP service account keys, SSH keys, and browser-stored passwords. These are among the most valuable targets for attackers and are fully protected.
Yes. CredentialProtect blocks unauthorized credential access regardless of whether it comes from obvious malware or a legitimate trusted tool being abused. If the access is unauthorized, it is stopped.
For your security & engineering team
CredentialProtect enforces access policy on sensitive credential stores at the file layer through the user-space SIGMA engine — independent of a process's signature or reputation, so it stops both unsigned info-stealers and the abuse of signed native tools (e.g. cURL-based exfiltration to a C2). Detections are recorded by the on-host MCP AI Investigator and stream to your SIEM/SOAR (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic) via JSON, gRPC, MCP, or Syslog. <1% CPU, real-time enforcement, 100% offline-capable.