Unified Secrets and Machine Identity Platform recognized for excellence in Product, Innovation, and Overall Leadership categories
New York and Tel Aviv, Israel, April XX, 2025 – Akeyless, a leader in identity security, today announced it has been recognized as an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for “Enterprise Secrets Management”. The prestigious industry report also positioned Akeyless as a Leader in both Product Leadership and Innovation Leadership categories, highlighting the company’s comprehensive approach to secrets management and machine identity security.
The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass provides an in-depth analysis of the Enterprise Secrets Management market, evaluating vendors on their ability to deliver comprehensive solutions for managing digital secrets across diverse environments. Akeyless earned “strong positive” ratings across multiple critical evaluation criteria, including Security, Functionality, and Interoperability.
KuppingerCole identified Akeyless as having “particular relevance to organizations requiring a robust and flexible approach to secrets management,” especially those operating across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The report also noted that Akeyless is well-positioned for enterprises across diverse sectors, calling it “a valuable option for businesses looking to enhance their security posture and address growing threats associated with secrets management.” With strong capabilities for managing API keys, certificates, and more, Akeyless stands out as a strategic choice for organizations facing increasingly complex security challenges.
“Enterprises are dealing with the security consequences of the rise in AI agents and non-human identities. Being recognized as an overall leader by KuppingerCole is a powerful validation of our platform’s ability to help enterprises deal with these emerging challenges,” said Oded Hareven, CEO of Akeyless Security. “Our innovative approach to secrets management helps organizations prevent the leading cause of breaches—compromised secrets and non-human identities—while significantly reducing TCO.”
Key Strengths Highlighted
The KuppingerCole report highlighted several key strengths of the Akeyless Secrets and Machine Identity Platform:
- Comprehensive Solution: Unified management for credentials, certificates, keys and all non-human identities
- Innovative Security: Unique Gateway architecture and Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™) providing Zero-Knowledge security
- Robust Integration: Extensive connectivity options for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments
- Lifecycle Management: Automated credential rotation and governance at enterprise scale
- Standards Support: Broad support for industry standards including OAuth and SPIFFE
The report also noted Akeyless’s strong position in addressing the rapidly growing Non-Human Identity (NHI) management segment, a critical area as machine identities now vastly outnumber human identities in most organizations.
The KuppingerCole report emphasizes that the Enterprise Secrets Management market is shifting from isolated, point solutions to integrated platforms capable of managing many different secret types across complex, hybrid environments. This evolution is driven by the exponential growth in machine identities, the prevalence of cloud-native applications, and the need for comprehensive secrets governance.
“As enterprise adoption of AI skyrockets, so do machine identities and the secrets they use to securely communicate with each other. Siloed legacy tools can’t keep pace with the scale and growth of non-human identities,” added Hareven. “Our unified platform addresses the entire spectrum of secrets management challenges, helping enterprises close security gaps while providing complete visibility and control across their entire digital ecosystem.”
Full Report
To download a complimentary copy of the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Enterprise Secrets Management, please visit: https://www.akeyless.io/landing/2025-kuppingercole-secrets-management/
About 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 & Machine Identity platform designed to prevent the #1 cause of breaches — compromised 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 Secrets Management with Certificate Lifecycle Management, Next Gen Privileged Access Management, and Encryption Key Management to manage the lifecycle of all machine identities and secrets across all environments.
For more information about Akeyless and its enterprise secrets management solutions, visit Akeyless.io
