The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for providing security tokens to cloud-based assets on demand. Operations performed in the disclosed embodiments include receiving a prompt from a cloud-based asset indicating that the cloud-based asset is seeking to communicate with an access-controlled resource, wherein the cloud-based asset lacks authorization to communicate with the access-controlled resource. Additionally, the operations include extracting information associated with the cloud-based asset by accessing a trusted cloud platform resource storing data associated with verified cloud-based assets, where the trusted cloud platform resource is separate from the cloud-based asset, and authenticating the cloud-based asset based on the extracted information. The operations also include generating a security token for the cloud-based asset, making a first portion of the security token available to be injected into the cloud-based asset, and responding to the prompt with a second portion of the security token.