Akeyless Secrets Management

Overview

Akeyless Secrets Management is a SaaS-native secrets management platform designed for modern DevOps, hybrid cloud, and AI workloads. It delivers vault-grade security without the operational overhead of managing vault servers by using a zero-knowledge architecture based on Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™), ensuring encryption keys are split across regions and providers so Akeyless cannot access them. The platform centralizes static, dynamic, and short-lived secrets, API tokens, and certificates, and supports automated rotation, just-in-time (JIT) access, and detailed audit logging. Akeyless integrates with CI/CD pipelines, developer tools, and identity providers to inject secrets at runtime, eliminating hard-coded credentials and reducing attack surface. Built for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, it supports AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and on-prem systems while providing role-based access control, zero-standing privileges (ZSP™), and enterprise-grade compliance controls. Fully managed and cloud-native, Akeyless reduces maintenance costs and accelerates developer workflows while maintaining high availability, scalability, and comprehensive governance for secrets, keys, and certificates across distributed infrastructures.

Features

  • Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™) zero-knowledge architecture
  • Unified secrets, keys, and certificates management
  • Just-in-time (JIT) credential issuance and secretless access
  • Automated credential and certificate rotation
  • Support for static, dynamic, and short-lived secrets
  • Short-lived SSH certificates
  • PKI as a Service (PKI)
  • Multi-Vault Governance / Universal Secrets Connector
  • Secure Kubernetes secrets management
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and detailed audit logs
  • API-first design and developer-focused integrations (CI/CD, GitOps)
  • Zero-Standing Privileges (ZSP™) and least-privilege enforcement
  • Migration tools for moving from self-hosted vaults (e.g., HashiCorp Vault)
  • High availability and fully managed SaaS operation

Integrations

Akeyless integrates broadly across DevOps and cloud ecosystems. It offers native integrations with AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes, and plugs into CI/CD and developer tooling such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Terraform/GitOps workflows, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. It also supports identity provider integrations for unified identity-based access, API-first access for programmatic workflows, and a Universal Secrets Connector for multi-vault governance and bridging external secrets stores.

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Compliance & Certifications

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 FIPS 140-2

Sellers & Vendors

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Akeyless

Akeyless is a cybersecurity company specializing in secure access management solutions. They offer services that enable organizations to protect sensitive credentials, secrets, and infrastructure through centralized and automated secrets management.

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