Understanding Akeyless

Secrets Management

Hard-coded keys and secrets scattered across code, pipelines and cloud accounts are a common problem for platform and DevOps teams. Secrets Management stores, issues and rotates the credentials that applications depend on, and handles three kinds of secret:

• Static secrets such as passwords, API keys and tokens, held centrally instead of in code
• Rotated secrets, where Akeyless changes the value on the target system on a schedule
• Dynamic secrets, created on request for a database, cloud account or SSH session and expired automatically

Universal Secrets Connector

Large organisations often end up with several vaults, one per cloud or team, and no single view of who can reach what. The Universal Secrets Connector lets security teams govern secrets that live in other vaults from the Akeyless console, with one view of policy across them. Rotated values can be pushed to those stores automatically, so applications that still read from a cloud-native vault always get the current secret.

Certificate Lifecycle Management

Expired or forgotten certificates cause outages, and manual renewal does not keep up as certificate lifetimes shrink. This product helps infrastructure and PKI teams by discovering public and private certificates across cloud, on-premises and Kubernetes environments, and automates issuance, renewal, revocation and deployment. Akeyless runs its own PKI service and also works with external certificate authorities and ACME workflows.

Multi-Cloud KMS And BYOK

The key management service is for organisations that must keep control of their own encryption keys across several clouds, often for regulatory reasons. It manages keys across cloud providers, including bring-your-own-key setups, and supports KMIP and transparent data encryption for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

Modern PAM (Secure Remote Access)

Secure Remote Access replaces shared admin passwords and permanent privileged accounts for engineers and administrators. It gives just-in-time privileged access to servers over SSH and RDP, databases, Kubernetes clusters and cloud consoles. Each session uses a short-lived credential tied to a verified identity and ends when the task is done. Sessions and commands are recorded live, and new servers, databases and clusters are discovered and enrolled as they appear.

Password Management

Akeyless Password Manager gives employees a managed place for the passwords they use every day, so they stop living in spreadsheets and browsers. It runs on the same platform, with browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

SecretlessAI

SecretlessAI keeps credentials out of AI agents altogether. The agent authenticates with its workload identity and the Gateway brokers the connection, creating a short-lived identity directly on the target. Passwords, keys and tokens never reach the agent’s code, prompts, context or environment, so a compromised or prompt-injected agent has nothing to leak. It works over MCP and native tool calling, including against legacy and on-premises systems.

Runtime Authority

Runtime Authority, generally available since September 2026, governs what an agent does once it has access. Each action is checked against the originating prompt and the agent’s objective, using AI intent classification together with deterministic policy on top of role and attribute controls. Destructive or out-of-scope actions are blocked at the Gateway before they run, and sensitive fields are redacted before data returns to the agent. An Agentic Access Dashboard shows live sessions across SSH, databases, Kubernetes and cloud APIs, with a one-click kill switch, and every action is logged with its prompt, intent and verdict and traced to the person who started it.

Agentic Identity Intelligence

Agentic Identity Intelligence finds AI agents across the environment, maps their connections and builds a record of each agent’s identity, access and data use, so persistent agent credentials can be swapped for scoped, just-in-time access.

Supported AI Platforms

Akeyless supports Claude Enterprise, Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Google Gemini, Google ADK, Microsoft Foundry, Mistral, xAI Grok, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, JetBrains IDEs and n8n, and publishes its own Akeyless MCP Server.