Launching the Most Secure Managed OpenClaw Platform on the Market

OpenClaw powers the agent. ClawTrust makes it safe to put in front of your business.

OpenClaw is one of the most capable open-source AI agent frameworks available. It connects to Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord. It browses the web. It executes code. It handles multi-step tasks that would take a human hours. It's the engine behind a new generation of AI employees.

But there's a problem.

Security researchers recently found 42,665 publicly accessible OpenClaw instances running with default configurations and no authentication (CNBC). The skill marketplace has a 7% malicious skill rate. And every "1-click deploy" option on the market gives you a running instance in minutes, followed by 4 to 20 hours of security hardening, configuration, credential management, and monitoring setup that most teams never actually do.

That's the gap ClawTrust fills.

Before building ClawTrust, I spent years at Palo Alto Networks and SentinelOne, two of the world's leading cybersecurity companies, implementing enterprise security, AI, and endpoint protection for Fortune 500 companies. Before that, I was at PagerDuty, where I learned that infrastructure without monitoring is just hope. When I evaluated every OpenClaw deployment option on the market, I found the same gaps I'd spent my career helping enterprises fix: open ports, plaintext credentials, no encryption at rest, no audit trail.

So I built the solution I'd want to deploy for any enterprise customer.

We're launching the most secure zero trust OpenClaw deployment on the market. Dedicated infrastructure per customer. Zero open ports. Three layers of encryption. A credential vault where your agents never see a password. And a shared memory system called BrainTrust that OpenClaw doesn't have out of the box.

OpenClaw does the work. ClawTrust makes it safe.

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What OpenClaw Already Does (And Why It's Worth Securing)

Let's give credit where it's due. OpenClaw is a powerful framework. Out of the box, it can:

• Handle every messaging channel. Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord. Your agent meets your customers wherever they are.
• Browse the web. Navigate pages, fill out forms, pull data from portals, take screenshots. Real browser automation, not just API calls.
• Execute code. Python scripts for data analysis, report generation, and custom integrations.
• Use tools. Calendar management, CRM updates, email drafting, file handling. The same work you'd hand to a virtual assistant or junior employee.
• Manage multi-step workflows. Triage an inbound email, research the sender, draft a response, update your pipeline, and flag it for follow-up. All in one conversation turn.

This is why businesses want OpenClaw. It's not a chatbot that answers FAQs. It's a general-purpose AI employee that actually works.

The problem isn't capability. It's that most deployments leave all of this power sitting behind an open port with plaintext credentials on an unencrypted disk.

The Real Cost of "1-Click Deploy"

Every cloud marketplace has a 1-click OpenClaw app now. You press the button, a droplet spins up, and OpenClaw is running. Simple.

Except it isn't. That 1-click is really just the starting line. Here's what comes after:

• Firewall configuration. The default exposes port 18789 to the internet. You need to set up a reverse proxy, configure TLS certificates, and lock down access. (1-2 hours if you know what you're doing.)
• Credential management. Your API keys, bot tokens, and service passwords go into environment variables in plaintext. You need to figure out encryption, rotation, and access control. (2-4 hours, or more likely, you skip it.)
• Disk encryption. The default disk is unencrypted. Setting up full-disk encryption with proper key management is a project in itself. (2-4 hours.)
• Container hardening. Dropping Linux capabilities, blocking privilege escalation, limiting memory and process counts, making the browser container read-only. (2-4 hours.)
• Skill vetting. 7% of marketplace skills leak credentials. You need to audit every skill before installing it, or build your own. (Ongoing.)
• Monitoring and alerting. Health checks, usage tracking, audit logging, brute-force detection. (4-8 hours to set up properly.)
• Lifecycle management. Patching, updates, deprovisioning when done. (Ongoing forever.)

Add it up: 4 to 20+ hours of work after the "1-click." And that's if you're experienced with DevOps, security, and OpenClaw configuration. Most businesses skip most of it. That's how 42,665 instances end up exposed on the internet.

ClawTrust does all of this for you, automatically, in under 5 minutes.

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What ClawTrust Secures

Everything below is something OpenClaw can already do. ClawTrust's job is to make it safe to run in production.

Zero Trust Networking: No Open Ports

Every other OpenClaw deployment we've evaluated has a public IP with open ports. ClawTrust agent servers have zero inbound ports. The firewall denies all incoming connections by default. Not even HTTPS.

Each server establishes an outbound-only encrypted tunnel to our edge network. The OpenClaw gateway binds exclusively to the server's loopback interface (127.0.0.1). It is physically unreachable from any external network.

How most OpenClaw deployments work:

    Internet ──► Public IP:443 ──► Reverse Proxy ──► OpenClaw Gateway
                  (scannable)       (attack surface)   (port 18789)

How ClawTrust works:

    Internet ──► Edge Network ──► Encrypted Tunnel ◄── Agent Server
                 (our perimeter)   (outbound-only)     (no open ports)

Nothing to scan. Nothing to fingerprint. Nothing to exploit remotely.

Three Layers of Encryption

Layer 1: Field-level encryption. Every sensitive field in our database (tokens, API keys, credentials) is encrypted with authenticated encryption at the application layer before it's written. A raw database export returns ciphertext.

Layer 2: Database encryption. The database itself runs on encrypted infrastructure at the provider level.

Layer 3: Full-disk encryption on every VPS. Every agent server's data directory sits on an encrypted volume with a memory-hard key derivation function. All container data, logs, and agent state are encrypted at rest.

Hardened Containers

The OpenClaw agent container runs with all Linux capabilities dropped except the minimum needed, privilege escalation blocked at the kernel level, memory ceilings enforced with zero swap, and process counts limited per tier. The browser container is entirely read-only with dangerous protocols blocked and downloads disabled.

Pre-Installed Skills

Every ClawTrust agent ships with a curated set of audited skills out of the box. You can also install additional skills from the marketplace or build your own.

VPS Hardening

Before OpenClaw even starts, every server configures: deny-all firewall, brute-force protection (3 failed SSH attempts = 24-hour IP ban), DNS-level malware filtering, Docker hardening, and encrypted storage. All automated during first boot.

What ClawTrust Adds That OpenClaw Doesn't Have

These are capabilities we built on top of OpenClaw. They don't exist in the open-source project.

Secure Credential Vault

This is one of the biggest unsolved problems in AI agent deployment: how do you give an agent access to your services without giving it your passwords?

At Palo Alto Networks, one of the core principles we drilled into every enterprise deployment was: credentials never live on the endpoint. If the endpoint is compromised, secrets stored on it are compromised. Every EDR, every SIEM, every zero trust architecture is built on this idea.

Yet every OpenClaw deployment we've seen does the exact opposite: paste your credentials into environment variables on the agent's server. The agent sees everything. If the agent is compromised, your credentials are compromised. If the server is breached, your passwords are sitting in plaintext.

ClawTrust takes a fundamentally different approach. Your agent never sees your passwords. Ever.

Credentials are stored in an encrypted vault on our control plane, not on the agent's server. When the agent needs to access a service (send an email, update a CRM, check a calendar), the request is proxied through our control plane. We inject the credentials at the proxy layer, execute the request, and return the result. The agent sees the response but never the credential that authorized it.

Think of it like a secure concierge service. The agent says "send this email from my work account." The proxy authenticates with your SMTP credentials, sends the email, and confirms delivery. The agent never touches the password.

What this means in practice:

• Agent compromise doesn't leak credentials. Even if an attacker gets code execution inside the agent container, there are no passwords to steal. They're not on the server.
• Credential rotation is instant. Update the credential in the vault, and every agent using it picks up the change immediately. No SSH-ing into servers to update .env files.
• Audit trail on every credential use. Every time a credential is used, it's logged: which agent, which service, when, and what action. Full visibility.
• No copy/paste of secrets. You enter credentials once into the encrypted vault. You never see them again, and neither does the agent.

This is similar to how services like 1Password work for humans, but built specifically for AI agents. Better, actually, because the agent never needs to "see" the credential at all. It just gets the access.

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BrainTrust: Cross-Agent Shared Memory

OpenClaw has built-in conversation memory. It remembers context within a session and can persist some information across sessions. That's useful for basic continuity.

BrainTrust is different. It's a cross-agent, persistent, searchable knowledge base that sits outside of OpenClaw and serves as your team's institutional memory.

When your agent learns something from an interaction (a customer preference, a business process, an escalation pattern), it stores that knowledge in BrainTrust. The next time any agent on your team encounters a related situation, that knowledge surfaces automatically via semantic search, even when the exact words don't match.

What BrainTrust stores:

• Learned facts. "Our return policy is 30 days." "The Chicago office closes at 5 PM Central."
• Preferences. "Always CC the ops team on urgent requests." "This client prefers phone over email."
• Processes. "When a lead asks about enterprise pricing, check the rate sheet first, then offer a call."
• Contacts. Key people, roles, and how to reach them.
• Escalation rules. "If the customer mentions legal action, escalate to the founder immediately."
• Decisions. "We chose vendor X for shipping because of their API." Context for why things are the way they are.

Privacy by design: Before any memory is stored, our PII detection layer strips email addresses, phone numbers, SSNs, credit card numbers, IP addresses, and API keys. The agent remembers the context without storing the credentials.

Daily Reflection (Pro and Enterprise): A daily automated process analyzes your team's BrainTrust, archives low-quality memories, identifies patterns, and generates synthesis insights. This runs on our infrastructure, not yours. No impact on your agent's performance or your AI budget.

BrainTrust is included on every plan.

Agent Identity System

OpenClaw runs with whatever system prompt you give it. ClawTrust provides a structured identity framework that turns it into a real team member:

Personality and values. Who your agent is. Professional? Casual? Technical? This defines tone across every channel and interaction.

Operational guidelines. What the agent handles, what it escalates, when it loops in a human. Guardrails that keep the agent in bounds.

Business context. Your products, pricing, policies, team structure, and workflows. Structured knowledge the agent references in every decision, not a one-line prompt.

Communication style. How the agent writes, how formal it is, how it structures responses. The details that make it feel like a team member.

Dedicated Email Infrastructure (Pro and Enterprise)

Your agent gets its own email address. A real mailbox for sending, receiving, and managing email workflows. Set up inbox forwarding rules from your existing accounts, and the agent processes inbound emails like a real assistant: triaging, drafting responses, updating your CRM, escalating urgent items, and following up.

Multi-Cloud Provisioning With Automatic Failover

We deploy across both public hyperscalers and private cloud providers. If one provider is at capacity, provisioning cascades to the next. Same security, same configuration, same experience regardless of where your server runs.

By supporting multiple providers across both public hyperscalers and private clouds, your agent is never blocked by a single provider's capacity limits or regional outages.

Automated Lifecycle Management

Working at PagerDuty taught me that the gap between "deployed" and "production-ready" is monitoring, alerting, and lifecycle automation. Most teams deploy and walk away. We built the operational layer that keeps things running: health monitoring, configuration pushes, AI usage tracking with budget caps, fleet-wide security updates, automated deprovisioning, and audit logging with 90-day retention. The full operational lifecycle, handled for you.

Resource Limits by Tier

All tiers include every messaging channel, browser automation, BrainTrust, the credential vault, and the full security stack. One-time $49 setup fee. We don't gate what you can do with your OpenClaw instance. It's your server.

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Why ClawTrust Instead of Self-Hosting OpenClaw

If you're considering OpenClaw, you have three options:

1. Self-host it yourself. You get full control, but you own the security, the hardening, the credential management, the monitoring, and the patching. Most teams underestimate this work by 10x. That's how 42,665 instances end up exposed.
2. Use a 1-click marketplace deploy. You get OpenClaw running fast. Then you spend 4-20 hours on security hardening that most teams never finish. Open ports, plaintext credentials, unencrypted storage, unvetted skills.
3. Use ClawTrust. The full power of OpenClaw on dedicated, zero trust infrastructure. Three layers of encryption. A credential vault where the agent never sees your passwords. BrainTrust shared memory. Curated skills. Automated lifecycle management. Ready in under 5 minutes.

OpenClaw does the work. We make it safe.

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Chris DiYanni is the founder of ClawTrust. Previously at Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, and PagerDuty. He believes the companies that win the AI agent race will be the ones their customers actually trust.