Understanding Aembit

Introduction to the Aembit Management Solution

The Okta for Non-Human Identities

Aembit is a Non-Human Identity (NHI) and access management platform designed to handle secure machine-to-machine interactions across multi-cloud, SaaS, and on-premise environments. Often referred to as “Okta for Non-Human Identities”, Aembit streamlines the enforcement of machine identities and their access rights, ensuring secure and automated access without requiring manual intervention from developers or IT teams.

Aembit cryptographically verifies the identities of workloads using “trust providers,” leveraging secretless identity tokens from platforms like AWS, GCP, or on-prem systems. Further, enforcing policies set by the administrator, Aembit grants access and then injects a short-lived credential directly into the access request. This shift from long-lived credentials to dynamic, short-term tokens with just-in-time delivery enables organizations to automate credential management, and eliminate the need for workload NHIs to store credentials. This significantly enhances security and operational efficiency. Aembit’s conditional access policies ensure that workloads access resources only under predefined circumstances, such as meeting compliance & security posture requirements defined by, for example, Crowdstrike or Wiz.

Use Cases

Aembit’s solutions are used in securing sensitive databases (e.g., Snowflake), CI/CD systems, AI agents and LLMs, and enabling zero-trust access for machine workloads. Its approach eliminates secrets in CI/CD pipelines and prevents credential reuse, addressing a critical challenge for organizations managing multi-cloud infrastructures. It also prevents humans from touching and managing privileged machine credentials through no-code auth. The platform’s flexibility allows companies to focus on specific pain points, whether that’s sensitive data protection, secure CI/CD processes, or multi-cloud federation.

Aembit’s Competitive Advantage

Aembit’s approach combines identity federation with policy-based access control, securing the rapidly expanding web of non-human identities (e.g., service accounts, API keys, and microservices). This platform offers clear advantages over traditional cloud IAM systems and secrets managers like HashiCorp Vault, which often lack the ability to manage conditional access and centralized policies for machine-to-machine interactions.

1. Federating Identities Across Environments: Aembit can federate identities across any infrastructure—AWS, GCP, Azure, on-premise, or SaaS applications—providing real-time, cryptographically verified identities. This “secret-less” access model reduces the security risks associated with long-lived credentials.
2. Automated Credential Management: Aembit’s automation capabilities streamline the credential management process, removing manual handling and mitigating human error. This helps companies eliminate the complexities of credential injection, significantly improving security posture.
3. Developer-Friendly, No-Code Integration: Aembit’s no-code implementation allows developers to continue their workflows without modifications, as the platform manages credentials and policies behind the scenes. This flexibility enables organizations to adopt Aembit without disrupting existing development processes, and use Aembit when organizations are running software from third party providers.
4. Seamless Integration with Existing Vaults: Aembit integrates with legacy systems like CyberArk and provides the ability to mint on-demand, short-term tokens. This capability ensures smooth policy enforcement without forcing companies to rip and replace their existing infrastructure.

Discussion on some approaches used and how Aembit differs

It is popularly known that some companies might use some form of Cloud IAM and secrets managers (e.g., HashiCorp Vault), but they have their limitations in managing modern, distributed infrastructures. These tools are often designed to manage static credentials within specific environments (such as AWS or GCP), but they struggle to handle the cross-environment communication required in multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructures. For instance, Cloud IAM systems are inward-looking, meaning they work well within their native environments but create gaps when trying to connect to external systems, SaaS applications, or other cloud providers. Similarly, secrets managers like CyberArk and HashiCorp are built to store secrets securely but lack the conditional access, real-time policy enforcement, and identity federation required for non-human identity (NHI) security in distributed environments.

Aembit addresses these shortcomings by offering automation and federation across multi-cloud distributed environments. Unlike secrets managers, Aembit can retrieve credentials from multiple environments while also acting as a policy engine to ensure that every access request is validated in real-time using conditional access checks. As discussed, Aembit emphasizes a secret-less architecture, where short-lived tokens replace long-lived credentials, reducing the risk of breaches. It’s important to note that Aembit integrates smoothly with existing vaults like CyberArk and HashiCorp, allowing companies to retain their infrastructure while benefiting from Aembit’s advanced policy control and automation features. This allows organizations to transition to a secret-less model without ripping out their current systems.

Aembit’s vision is to lead the shift towards secret-less architectures, where credentials are dynamically minted on demand, reducing the need for legacy vaults. As more organizations embrace multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures, Aembit can solve the NHI security access management, offering a unified solution for companies struggling with both legacy systems and cloud-native deployments.

A Day in the Life of a Developer

A Day in the Life of a Developer – Aembit

Secrets were supposed to help – until they became the reason Alex couldn’t deploy on Friday.

This quick, illustrated story walks you through one developer’s real frustrations: flaky secrets, unclear access, broken auth, late-night rollbacks. If you’ve ever juggled API keys, rotated tokens manually, or been blamed for something infra-related that wasn’t your fault, this one hits close to home.

You’ll walk away with:

• A developer’s-eye view of why CI/CD breaks.
• Why storing secrets in GitLab variables, configs, or env vars can lead to pain.
• Research and stats that back up the story.
• Real-world breaches caused by secrets mismanagement in GitLab CI/CD.
• The alternative: short-lived, identity-based access that just works.

Download it, share it with your team – and maybe the next person who tells you to “just rotate the token and move on.”

Understanding Corsha

Corsha

Corsha is an Identity Provider for Machines that allows enterprises to connect securely, move data, and automate with confidence from anywhere to anywhere.

Many organizations today rely on static secrets such as keys, tokens, and certificates to secure communication between machines. However, these secrets are increasingly being compromised, resulting in significant data breaches across both public and private sectors. The escalating number of security incidents involving non-human identities (NHIs) highlights the urgent need for enhanced protection measures.

Corsha stands out as the one and only identity provider focused solely on machines, redefining the landscape of machine identity management. We offer a comprehensive product solution designed to address the unique challenges of NHIs and provide robust, identity-first security for machine-to-machine communication.

Reimagining Machine Identity

Corsha reimagines machine identity management by creating an abstraction layer that bridges NHI protection, access control, and security testing. This innovation establishes a new category of NHI Identity and Access Management, addressing the static nature of API secrets with a dynamic, identity-first approach. By automating the creation, management, and validation of machine identities, Corsha removes the manual, error-prone aspects of traditional secret management and ensures robust security for API communications.

Strengthened Security

Machine secrets alone are not sufficient for secure identity management; they can be stolen and exploited. Corsha’s Identity Provider (IdP) and authentication platform introduce a second factor of authentication, significantly mitigating the risks associated with secret management. This approach reinforces the security of machine identities and reduces vulnerabilities.

Unified Communication View

Corsha provides a unified view of protected machine communication through the Corsha Console. This feature ensures that only trusted machines can access your services. Administrators can configure trust levels and schedule access for machines or groups, following a deny-first approach that enhances API security by minimizing unauthorized access and reducing attack surfaces.

Discovery and Enforcement

The Corsha Gatekeeper plays a critical role in identifying trusted machines by analyzing all API requests. It starts in discovery mode, allowing your API to function smoothly while Corsha learns your environment and communication patterns. The system then transitions to enforcement mode, ensuring that only authorized machines can access your services based on established trust levels.

Enhanced Machine Identity

The Corsha Authenticator generates one-time-use credentials for API requests. This process adds a crucial second factor of authentication, effectively eliminating the risk of secrets theft and preventing the reuse of intercepted credentials. By introducing this additional layer of security, Corsha ensures that each request is verified and protected, further safeguarding sensitive communications.

Flexible Deployment

Corsha is designed for seamless deployment across various environments, including public clouds, private clouds, on-premises data centers, and third-party SaaS tools. Our Identity Provider for Machines (IdP) is distributed to enhance resilience and security, managing machines in hybrid environments without relying on external credential providers. This flexibility ensures that Corsha can integrate smoothly into diverse IT infrastructures.

Seamless Integration

Deploying Corsha involves requires no code changes. The original client request is automatically wrapped with an MFA token, ensuring that communication remains protected without the need for API clients or services to be aware of Corsha’s presence. This seamless integration minimizes disruption and simplifies the adoption process.

DevOps Integration

Corsha Authenticator can be integrated into your DevOps pipeline, automating machine trust management. Newly deployed machines will start with the Authenticator installed, ensuring that all API requests are protected by MFA and establishing a root of trust. This integration supports a streamlined DevOps workflow while maintaining high security standards.

Zero Trust Compliance

Corsha enforces Zero Trust principles for machine communication, blocking requests from untrusted sources. Our platform satisfies Zero Trust controls for non-person entities (NPE) communication and can operate standalone or integrate with third-party tools. This adherence to Zero Trust principles strengthens overall security posture by ensuring that only verified and trusted machines can interact with your systems.

Automated Certificate Rotation

Corsha manages client certificate rotation, providing an additional layer of security for long-lived or rarely rotated credentials. This automated process protects against the reuse of stolen credentials and ensures continuous security for your systems. By regularly updating certificates, Corsha helps maintain the integrity of your authentication mechanisms.

Simplified Third-Party Protection

Corsha simplifies the protection of third-party applications without requiring code changes. By acting as the mandatory entry point for all third-party traffic, Corsha ensures that only trusted machines you control can access your services. This approach streamlines third-party integration while maintaining robust security.

Detailed Audit Trails

Corsha maintains comprehensive audit trails of all communication to critical APIs, tracking both successful and failed requests from any machine. This detailed logging can be streamed to audit tools, providing maximum visibility and facilitating thorough security reviews. The ability to track and analyze these logs enhances overall security monitoring and incident response.

Comprehensive Access Logging

The Corsha Gatekeeper monitors all communication to your key systems, logging access attempts from both trusted and untrusted machines. This data can be streamed to log aggregation tools or SIEM/SOAR environments for security and audit purposes. Comprehensive access logging ensures that you have full visibility into machine interactions with your APIs, aiding in the detection of anomalies and potential threats.

Observability and Discovery

Corsha emphasizes observability and discovery as integral components of its platform. Our system provides a spectrum of trust, ensuring that only verified and trusted machines and identities can access your NHIs. By leveraging true and patented MFA for APIs, Corsha enhances security and minimizes the risk of credential misuse, while maintaining a clear view of machine interactions.

Full Lifecycle Management

Corsha offers full lifecycle management for NHIs, supporting both legacy and modern ecosystems without requiring code changes. Our agentless platform ensures easy adoption over time and enables connectivity between OT and IT systems. This comprehensive management approach simplifies the administration of machine identities and enhances security across diverse IT environments.

Understanding Natoma

Understanding Natoma

Breadth and Depth for NHI security

Natoma came out of stealth in July 30, 2024. Natoma is a comprehensive NHI platform for securing and controlling non-human identities. They provide visibility across cloud, SaaS and on-prem. They manage the lifecycle of NHIs as discussed earlier in this report. The founders have extensive experience within the Identity ecosystem and want to use their knowledge to solve the NHI problem.

Natoma wants to go beyond breadth of visibility, but go deeper into depth of these NHIs across vaults. Natoma provides more than just a surface-level view of NHIs. They emphasize giving deep contextual graph to understand the relationship between all your NHIs, including:

• Who owns the NHI: Identifying the human owner or team responsible for each NHI.
• Where the NHI is being used: Mapping NHIs to their usage within cloud workloads to ensure that lifecycle actions (e.g., rotation, decommissioning) don’t disrupt critical services.
• What the NHI is capable of: ensuring NHIs follow the principle of least privileged access and are only granted permissions that they need (and use)

Natoma’s approach to Non-Human Identity (NHI) management follows a lifecycle process that begins with gaining full visibility and inventory of all NHIs across cloud environments. Next, they map dependencies to understand where NHIs are used, ensuring any lifecycle changes don’t disrupt services. They then attribute ownership of NHIs to responsible individuals or teams, dynamically updating this as roles change. Natoma also automates secret rotation, ensuring credentials are regularly updated and secure, while orchestrating provisioning for new NHIs with the right permissions. They handle offboarding and deprovisioning by safely deactivating unused NHIs and ensure smooth ownership transitions when users leave or change roles. For NHIs that need scope adjustments, Natoma facilitates change of permissions based on actual usage. All of this is done through non-intrusive collection, integrating with existing security systems to minimize friction.

Non-invasive approach

A highlight from my discussions is Natoma’s non-Intrusive approach. Natoma collects data from various systems to build a detailed picture of NHI activity and automatically inventory all NHIs present in the cloud environment. This includes service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, and other non-human credentials. This approach allows them to provide insights without requiring deep integration into each system, making their solution relatively low friction for customers.

Natoma ingests and fingerprints data that includes actions taken by NHIs, such as API calls, service account activity, and interactions with cloud workloads. This data is ideal for understanding NHIs because they capture detailed information about who (or what) is accessing specific resources and when the access occurred. For example:

• Where an NHI is being used (e.g., within which cloud service or workload).
• What actions the NHI is performing (e.g., accessing sensitive databases, making API calls).
• When and how frequently the NHI is active (e.g., identifying stale NHIs that have not been used recently).
• What actions were performed (e.g., API usage, file modifications).
• Which permissions were invoked or used

Natoma can identify anomalous behaviors associated with NHIs. For instance, if a service account that is typically used during office hours suddenly starts making API calls at 3 AM, this could indicate a compromised identity. They give Natoma the ability to see both real-time and historical data, which is critical for lifecycle management including the meta-data for attributing ownership and accountability.

Downstream Dependencies

One of the most challenging aspects of NHI governance is understanding where an identity is used across an organization’s infrastructure. Natoma maps these dependencies by tracking which systems interact with which NHIs. This information is crucial when making lifecycle decisions, such as rotating credentials or deprovisioning an account, as it prevents accidentally breaking workflows or services. It can also identify abuse of non-human identity such as when a new, unexpected client or system attempts to use an NHI, or there is interactive activity associated with an account reserved for programmatic use.

Natoma’s analysis is a key capability for managing NHIs because it allows for deep visibility, comprehensive lifecycle management, and proactive security measures. Natoma’s approach to Non-Human Identity (NHI) management is distinguished by its ability to provide both breadth and depth in managing the lifecycle of NHIs, across a wide range of systems, such as SaaS, PaaS, on-prem infrastructure, and more. Natoma is focused on scaling their solution to support very large enterprises, including those in highly regulated industries like finance and critical infrastructure (e.g., oil and gas).

Understanding SlashID

SlashID

SlashID offers a comprehensive view of identities, enabling informed decisions on identity hygiene, attack detection, and response. Contrary to other vendors, SlashID extends to human identities and credentials across both managed and unmanaged environments. SlashID’s approach to managing non-human identities (NHI) is built on three pillars:

1. Visibility: They cover cloud providers and SaaS applications. They provide visibility for Kubernetes clusters and network traffic through a deployable agent (similar to a sidecar model).
2. Detection: They provide both posture and anomaly detection. They can identify misconfigurations (eg weak MFA), but also extend that by performing behavioral analysis to detect compromised identities.
3. Remediation: They offer both manual and automated actions like suspending identities, revoking permissions, and deleting or rotating credentials. They equally integrate with workflow tools (e.g., Jira) to automate responses.

SlashID ingests identity and log data through agentless connectors for managed environments, and sidecars are used specifically for unmanaged environments like Kubernetes. This data builds a cross-provider “trust tree” for each identity, detailing permissions, roles, privileges, and historical activity. The trust tree simplifies lifecycle management and enforces least-privilege policies by identifying unused permissions and tracing NHI ownership and usage.

The detection engine identifies misconfigurations (e.g., unused permissions) and active threats. It includes an attack graph that aids SOC investigations and assesses the blast radius of breaches or misconfigurations. A key strength is cross-platform, cross-identity threat detection, such as lateral movement between human and non-human identities.

SlashID offers both manual and automated remediation, allowing organizations to enforce least-privilege policies and speed up incident response. The platform can quarantine identities, revoke sessions, integrate with ticketing and SOAR systems, and rotate and tokenize credentials as needed.

SlashID provides enterprises with a robust solution that intersects several key identity categories such as NHI, ITDR and identity attack surface management (IASM).

Understanding Britive

Britive is a leading cloud-native privileged access management (PAM) platform purpose-built to secure and manage access for both human and non-human identities across multi-cloud and hybrid on-prem environments. Everything we do at Britive is designed to address the unique challenges of managing identities in modern, complex infrastructures.

With our agentless, cross-functionally aligned PAM solution, Britive empowers development teams, platform engineers, and security professionals to securely and seamlessly manage dynamic access without compromising security, innovation, or operational efficiency.

Key Features and Capabilities

• Proactively Mitigate Identity & Access Risks with Zero Trust: Britive ensures your security framework operates on a true Zero Trust foundation. By granting temporary, just-in-time (JIT) permissions and validating access at every layer, Britive reduces risks while maintaining smooth integration with your existing cloud security and tech stack.
• Patented Just-in-Time (JIT) Access: Britive eliminates standing privileges by providing ephemeral, time-limited access that is automatically revoked after use. This approach minimizes the identity attack surface by separating permissions from credentials, ensuring enhanced security across cloud platforms, applications, servers, databases, and Kubernetes environments.
• Unified Access Management: Centralize identity security for both human and non-human identities, ensuring consistent policies, granular permissions, and complete visibility across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Simplified Compliance & Audit Readiness: Britive simplifies adherence to regulatory requirements like NYDFS, SOC2, and PCI by automating compliance reporting and providing auditable logs. Centralized identity and permissions management, combined with Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP), streamlines access reviews and audit processes.
• Self-Service Access with Access Builder: Empower end-users to create and obtain permissions instantly using Access Builder. This feature eliminates delays and reduces back-and-forth between teams while maintaining strict security standards and upholding Zero Standing Privileges.
• DevOps & Automation Workflow Support with PyBritive: Britive’s open-source CLI tool, PyBritive, integrates seamlessly with developer workflows and CI/CD systems. It enables frictionless and secure time-bound JIT permissions, secures non-human identities (NHIs) and automations, eliminates static secrets like API tokens, and enforces least privilege principles.
• Secrets Management & Credential Vaulting: Protect sensitive data with Britive’s enterprise-grade Secrets Manager. Temporary, policy-driven, auto-expiring access ensures secure handling of sensitive information that cannot be managed ephemerally.
• Rapid Scalability: Deploy Britive quickly and adapt to enterprise growth by managing access for an increasing number of identities across evolving infrastructures, tools, and workflows—across any cloud and hybrid environments, for both human and non-human identities.

Discover how Britive unifies, simplifies, and secures identity access for human and non-human identities with one platform and one view. Explore our seamless integrations at https://www.britive.com/integrations

Understanding Entro Security

Entro Security

Entro Security is a Non-Human Identity Management and Secrets Security platform that secures and manages the complete lifecycle of over 1000 types of NHIs and secrets.

Entro Security was founded in 2022 as the first company to launch a platform dedicated to securing secrets, and later expanded to lead the industry in establishing Non-Human Identity and Secrets Security as a market category.

Today, Entro provides end-to-end lifecycle management of NHIs and secrets. This includes discovery and classification of all NHIs throughout the environment on every platform, the ability to identify and right-size permissionary scopes of over-permissive identities, rotate stale identities, and eliminate unnecessary identities. By focusing on NHIs and Secrets, Entro allows companies to identify and manage all their non-human identities more efficiently. Some of Entro’s competitive advantages include:

Identifying Exposure Locations & Enrichment

Entro excels at identifying and discovering all NHIs and secrets throughout their lifecycles. This includes in their creation locations, storage locations(Vaults), and /or exposure locations where sensitive tokens, secrets, or credentials may be at risk. With one-click integration, Entro maps all the places where secrets can be stored or exposed, including:

• Vaults, like AWS secrets storage, Azure KV, GitHub secrets, and k8 secrets
• code repositories like Github and Bitbucket
• CI/CD workflows like Jenkins and Github actions
• Cloud infrastructures and services like AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Collaboration solutions like Teams, Slack, Zoom, and Google

Entro detects exposure locations of NHIs, which are critical for identifying potential vulnerabilities. This capability is unique in comparison to competitors who often focus only on discovery without providing insights into where identities were created, stored, or exposed.

The enrichment process adds critical context to these NHIs and secrets. by classifying and effectively creating a lineage map of which application is using what NHI to access what resource and more context that enables the security team to understand the blast radius of each NHI and secret. Entro’s detailed insights into the lifecycle of tokens—such as distinguishing between idle and active tokens—sets it apart from competitors. Additionally, Entro can detect sensitive NHIs or secrets improperly stored across multiple platforms, cloud, or on-prem environments, making it particularly effective in managing the sprawl of NHIs across hybrid systems. Entro adds metadata and context to each identity, such as permissions, creation details, and usage patterns, making it easier for organizations to assess risks and take action. This detailed classification process helps organizations gain better visibility and control over their NHIs

NHI Creator Identification

A major strength of Entro is its ability to identify who created a token and trace its storage locations, vaults, and secrets. This role identifier functionality helps organizations quickly pinpoint who is responsible for critical non-human identities, which can streamline the management and accountability of NHIs. By tracking not only the token’s lifecycle but also its creators and users, Entro enables better visibility and security, allowing security teams to identify and address potential risks more efficiently.

NHIDR (Non-Human Identity Detection & Response)

Entro’s threat detection and response capabilities go beyond simple monitoring. Entro’s NHIDR technology allows organizations to detect and respond to unauthorized access attempts. Entro’s NHIDR first establishes a baseline for behavior based on past data. After establishing this baseline NHIDR is able to detect and respond to anomalies within seconds.

This proactive approach ensures that security incidents are addressed in real-time, reducing potential breaches before they occur. Entro also automates the remediation process by rotating or revoking compromised tokens, thus minimizing the manual effort needed to secure environments.

Entro Gives you Answers

As a holistic and comprehensive platform for NHIs and secrets, Entro investigates all data sources and provides the context for security professionals to answer critical questions, such as:

• Who owns the identities in your environment?
• Who created the identities in your environment?
• Which NHIs have been re-used across multiple services?
• Where are NHIs being infrequently rotated?
• How many dormant identities were never decommissioned?
• Is an NHI over-permissive for its designated function, introducing privilege exposure?
• Were any Secrets inappropriately shared over collaborative platforms?
• Were any NHIs compromised by insider threats?

Understanding Oasis

Understanding Oasis

In today’s digital landscape, the importance of managing non-human identities has become increasingly significant. From IoT devices to automated software processes, non-human identities play a crucial role in various operational and security contexts. Oasis emerges as a pivotal solution for addressing these needs, providing robust features to ensure the secure and efficient management of non-human identities.

Key Features of Oasis

Oasis offers a suite of features tailored to the unique requirements of non-human identity management. Here are some of the most notable capabilities:

1. Automated Identity Provisioning: Oasis automates the provisioning of non-human identities, ensuring that each device or process receives the appropriate credentials and permissions without manual intervention. This automation reduces the risk of human error and streamlines the onboarding process.

2. Dynamic Credential Management: One of the standout features of Oasis is its dynamic credential management. It continuously monitors and updates credentials for non-human entities, ensuring they remain secure and compliant with organizational policies. This feature is essential for maintaining the integrity of systems that rely on these identities.

3. Comprehensive Auditing and Reporting: Oasis provides detailed auditing and reporting capabilities. Organizations can track the activities and interactions of non-human identities, generating comprehensive reports that support security audits and compliance requirements. This visibility is crucial for identifying potential vulnerabilities and ensuring accountability.

The Importance of Non-Human Identity Management

As the number of non-human identities grows, so does the complexity of managing them. Effective non-human identity management is essential for several reasons:

1. Enhanced Security: By ensuring that non-human identities are properly managed, organizations can significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized access and potential breaches. Valance Security’s features help in maintaining a secure environment.

2. Operational Efficiency: Automating the management of non-human identities frees up valuable resources, allowing IT teams to focus on more strategic tasks. This efficiency can lead to cost savings and improved overall performance.

3. Compliance and Accountability: Regulatory requirements often mandate strict control over identity management. Valance Security’s auditing and reporting tools help organizations meet these requirements and demonstrate compliance effectively.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Oasis addresses a critical need in the modern digital ecosystem by providing comprehensive features for managing non-human identities. Its automated provisioning, dynamic credential management, and robust auditing capabilities make it an invaluable tool for enhancing security, improving operational efficiency, and ensuring compliance. As organizations continue to adopt and integrate more non-human identities, solutions like Oasis will play an increasingly vital role in their success.

Understanding Akeyless

Understanding Akeyless

Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and industry leaders, Akeyless is redefining identity security for the modern enterprise, delivering the world’s first unified Secrets & Non-Human Identity platform designed to prevent the #1 cause of breaches – compromised machine identities and secrets.

Backed by the world’s leading cybersecurity investors and global financial institutions including JVP, Team8, NGP Capital and Deutsche Bank, Akeyless Security delivers a cloud-native SaaS platform that integrates Vaultless Secrets Management with Certificate Lifecycle Management, Next Gen Privileged Access (Secure Remote Access), and Encryption Key Management to manage the lifecycle of all machine identities and secrets across all environments.

Akeyless Unified Secrets & Non-Human Identity Platform has been adopted by several large enterprises across healthcare, financial, technology, and retail organizations delivering:

The Akeyless platform is designed for complete lifecycle management of the full range of Non-Human Identities, including:

• Secrets Management for NHIs: Centrally manage and secure sensitive credentials, certificates, and API tokens used by non-human identities such as applications, microservices, and automated workflows. Enable dynamic secrets and Just-in-Time access to eliminate risks of standing privileges and enhance security for machine-to-machine communications​​.
• Certificate Lifecycle Automation: Streamline the provisioning, renewal, and revocation of digital certificates critical to authenticating NHIs. Integrate with your PKI systems to ensure continuous, automated trust across hybrid and multicloud environments​​.
• Encryption & Key Management for Machine Workloads: Protect cryptographic keys utilized by non-human entities using Akeyless’s patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ (DFC). Ensure Zero-Knowledge encryption for sensitive data and support scalable machine identity management in hybrid environments​​.
• Secure Remote Access for Automated Systems: Facilitate secure, policy-driven access without static credentials or VPN dependencies. Leverage robust authentication mechanisms such as certificates, SAML, and OIDC to manage access seamlessly across machines and services​​.
• High Availability for All Operations: Ensure uninterrupted service and low-latency access for machine identities with 99.99% uptime SLA, multi-region redundancy, and failover mechanisms. Minimize operational disruptions for workflows and infrastructure​​.
• Integration with DevOps Pipelines: Enhance DevOps automation by integrating with CI/CD tools, Kubernetes, and orchestration platforms. Akeyless simplifies the management of non-human identities across complex workflows with extensive SDKs, plugins, and APIs​​.
• Zero-Knowledge Security for Machine Identities: Guarantee end-to-end encryption and ensure that neither Akeyless nor third parties can access sensitive data, thanks to patented DFC™ technology. Protect the lifecycle of NHIs with FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliant hardware security modules and advanced encryption practices​​.

Understanding SailPoint

SailPoint

SailPoint brings true identity governance to non-human identities. Founded in 2005, SailPoint delivers innovative solutions that address some of the world’s most dynamic security challenges. Our passion for solving our customers’ identity and security needs continues to guide us today.

Why SailPoint
Many tools treat machine accounts like human ones—ignoring the unique lifecycle, risk profile, and scale of non-human identities. SailPoint delivers a dedicated solution for machines, built into our unified identity platform. That means one place to govern all identities—human, machine, third-party, and AI agents—together.

SailPoint Machine Identity Security Overview

Get a breakdown of core features, key benefits, and how SailPoint’s Machine Identity Security helps you discover, govern, and secure non-human access.

Assess the datasheet here

Demystifying Machine Identity: A Three-Part Exploration

Start with the basics—what a machine identity is and why it matters—then dive deeper with articles on its historical evolution and where traditional security practices fall short. This series unpacks the complexities and stakes of governing machine identities today.

• Part 1 – What is a machine identity? Understanding the foundations of digital existence 
• Part 2 – The evolution of identity: From seals to systems
• Part 3 – Beyond security basics: How traditional best practices have failed machine identity

Learn how this key feature of SailPoint’s Machine Identity Security solution uses intelligent pattern recognition and system scans to uncover hidden, misclassified, and orphaned machine accounts. See how it drives visibility, reduces manual effort, and strengthens audit readiness—kickstarting machine identity governance.

Learn more about discovery feature here.