Akeyless Maturity Model Assessment

You can try our Secrets Management Maturity Assessment here: https://www.akeyless.io/landing/secrets-maturity/?source=nhimg

Akeyless presents a four-stage maturity framework designed to help organizations assess and improve their secrets management practices—from fragile, manual methods to advanced, zero-knowledge automation. Here's how the model breaks down:

Stage 1: Ad Hoc & Manual

• Secrets are scattered, hardcoded, shared in plaintext, and visible only through tribal knowledge.

• Access is unmanaged, creating high security risk and operational friction.

Stage 2: Siloed Vaulting

• Teams adopt vaulting tools, but implementation remains inconsistent and fragmented.

• Manual workflows persist, and integration across environments is limited.

Stage 3: Unified & Automated

• A shift to centralized, policy-driven management where secrets are versioned, tracked, and governed.

• Automated workflows ensure consistency and reduce human error.

Stage 4: Secretless & Zero-Knowledge

• The ultimate maturity level: no secrets are stored or passed. Instead, identities retrieve just-in-time credentials.

• Built on a zero-knowledge encryption model, enabling robust, identity-based access with minimal exposure risk.
  

This maturity model equips organizations with a clear roadmap—from manual and siloed management to secretless, identity-first systems—helping them modernize secrets handling, reduce risk, and scale operations confidently.