Akeyless Unified Secrets and Machine Identity Platform

Additional Info

CompanyAkeyless
Company size70-99 employees
World RegionNorth America
Websitehttps://www.akeyless.io/

NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

The Akeyless Unified Secrets and Machine Identity Platform provides a comprehensive, centralized solution designed to secure, manage, and automate secrets and machine identities across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Powered by its patented Vaultless™ architecture and Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™), Akeyless ensures organizations retain exclusive control over their sensitive data while enjoying the operational benefits of a fully managed SaaS platform.

By employing DFC, the platform ensures secrets are highly secure by fragmenting encryption keys across multiple cloud environments and customer infrastructure, offering robust protection against unauthorized access. Akeyless dynamically injects secrets at runtime, eliminating exposure risks associated with hard-coded credentials or configuration files.

Additionally, Akeyless’s Machine Identity Management component automates the entire lifecycle of both secrets and digital certificates, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and security compliance. With Just-in-Time (JIT) credentialing, the platform minimizes credential exposure windows, substantially reducing the impact of potential breaches. Akeyless’s unique zero-knowledge architecture ensures that even Akeyless itself cannot access customer secrets, providing unmatched security and data privacy. The Akeyless Gateway, deployed within the customer’s environment, further maintains the integrity of secrets by ensuring secure, outbound-only connections and resilient caching capabilities. This holistic approach simplifies security management, significantly reduces operational overhead, and ensures continuous compliance and audit-readiness.

Innovations like quantum-resilient encryption, integration with modern identity providers (SAML, OIDC, LDAP, cloud IAM roles), secretless workload authentication (SPIFFE/SPIRE plugins), and auto-scaling Kubernetes-native architecture ensure unparalleled security, scalability, and operational efficiency. Akeyless empowers DevOps, security, and IT teams to modernize their security posture, reduce risk, and simplify management — all without the infrastructure burden.

Key Capabilities / Features

Akeyless delivers comprehensive secrets management and machine identity solutions with several standout capabilities:


- Unified Secrets and Machine Identity Management: Manage secrets (API keys, database credentials, SSH keys), certificates (full lifecycle automation), encryption keys, and machine identities within a single SaaS platform​.


- Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™): Client-side encryption ensures true zero-knowledge security. Customers retain exclusive control over their key fragments, stored separately and securely​.


- Dynamic Secrets & JIT Access: Generate short-lived credentials on demand for databases, cloud providers, and SSH, reducing standing privileges and limiting attack surfaces​.


- Quantum-Resilient Encryption: Hybrid encryption (X25519 + ML-KEM768) guards data from present and future quantum threats, implemented at the Gateway layer with zero disruption to customer environments​.


- Extensive Integrations: Seamless compatibility with DevOps tools (Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes), Identity Providers (Okta, Azure AD), cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), and SPIFFE/SPIRE-based identity systems​.


- High Availability & Scalability: Multi-region, multi-AZ architecture with automatic failover, geolocation-based routing, proactive caching, and disaster recovery designed for 99.99%+ uptime​.


- Secretless Authentication: Integration with SPIFFE/SPIRE reduces the need for secrets directly on workloads, enhancing security without sacrificing performance​.


- Compliance and Certification: Meets stringent standards such as FIPS 140-2, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and GDPR​.


How we are different

- Exclusive Zero-Knowledge SaaS Architecture: Akeyless uniquely combines the convenience of SaaS with complete customer ownership of encryption keys through its patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™), ensuring no third party (not even Akeyless) can access customer secrets. As a SaaS platform, Akeyless supports fast deployment and low maintenance, providing a much lower TCO than the competition.


- Unified Platform for All Secrets and Identities: Unlike competitors offering fragmented tools, Akeyless consolidates secrets management, machine identity protection, encryption, certificate management, password management, and secure access into one streamlined platform, significantly reducing complexity and operational overhead​.


- Future-Proof with Quantum-Resilient Security: Akeyless is the first secrets management platform to implement hybrid TLS 1.3 encryption with quantum-resilient algorithms (ML-KEM768), protecting data against the evolving threats of quantum computing​.


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