Why Teams Pick Akeyless Over CyberArk: Unified Secrets + Modern PAM + CLM

Akeyless vs Cyberark, that’s the topic of this post! Most teams do not plan to manage several tools for secrets, access, and certificates. It often starts with one need. A team brings in a secrets vault to store sensitive data. Then a second tool is added for privileged access. Later a certificate product is introduced for machine identity. Over time, the stack grows layer by layer.

Each new product brings a new workflow and its own policy model. Security becomes less about protecting credentials and more about handling the glue between tools. The more consoles and connectors that must be maintained, the more friction teams feel in daily operations.

Both Akeyless and CyberArk aim to reduce risk, but they do it in different ways. CyberArk spreads the solution across multiple products while Akeyless delivers one platform. When everything lives under a single control plane, security teams do not waste time stitching capabilities together.

Video Demo

Did you know there’s a single platform that combines secrets management, human secure remote access, and certificate lifecycle management all with unified logging? Most teams still rely on separate tools for each of these, which means more complexity, more vendors, and more room for error. That siloed approach often leads to fragmented policies, blind spots in audit logs, and delays in responding to security events. In this walkthrough, you’ll see how Akeyless brings all of it together, securing a Postgres database end to end with just in time credentials, TLS certificates, and secure remote access with no credentials to manage, all from a single control plane. Stick around to see how it stacks up and why many are choosing Akeyless over tools like CyberArk. This video is actually associated with a blog post where I talk about a comparison between Akeyless and CyberArk. Check it out in the comments below. Let’s dive into the demo right now. Our demo is to secure a Postgres database end to end. And this walkthrough really shows us how one platform manages everything around Postgres, So secrets, certificates, and access for humans, all controlled from the same console and policy boundary. So the first part here is the on demand dynamic secret. So we’ll see how we can create dynamic credentials just in time for applications to be able to access this Postgres database with no long lived secrets. The second part here will be certificate issuance. We’re going to issue a TLS certificate that we can use with this database. No separate CA system needed, all within Akeyless. And then a just in time access for users, maybe DBAs or somebody who needs access into the database. We can see how we can access the database without worrying about any credentials for that database. We click a button, and we’re inside that database whether through an SSH session or directly through the web portal. And finally, a unified audit trail where we’re gonna see our secret requests, certificate issuance, and remote sessions all appear in one same log stream in the same platform. Of course, we have the option to also send logs to an external SIM, for example, like Splunk, but all of this is available within Akeyless. So let’s go ahead and jump into our demo. Alright. So I’m inside of the keyless right here, and I have two folders. I’ve got the Postgres folder and an SSH folder. I wanna show you real quick what’s in the Postgres folder. I have a bunch of certificates that I had from before, but I can quickly filter here and focus on dynamic secrets because that’s the first part of the demo here. And I have a dynamic secret where I can click a button and get a dynamic just in time secret that has a TTL of one hour. So you can see a username and password that we get right here. And everything I’m gonna show you in the UI is available through the CLI and the API. In fact, if you are going to use dynamic secrets with an application, you’re definitely gonna be using the API for that. So from here, we can generate another dynamic secret if we wish. We can close that, and we can go here and take a look at the temporary credentials that were issued. You can see that I have three here. I have one before the demo started over here, and we can go ahead and revoke any of these like that. This takes a few seconds, and it will revoke this particular access into the database, and we only have two left here. So that’s the first part that I wanted to show you that we can create a dynamic secret just in time that we can apply to our applications and minimize long lived credentials. Okay. So for the next part here, we’re going to go ahead and create our PKI infrastructure. And you can see here this document on the Achilles website, building your chain of trust. This is the way you should be doing things when you’re building a PKI. So you have a root CA that signs an intermediate CA. And then from the intermediate CA, you can start to issue leaf certificates. And you don’t always need to have a root CA within Akeyless itself. Some organizations will have their own root, but that root can sign a certificate that you can then embed inside of Akeyless as an intermediate CA that goes ahead and signs all your leaf certificates. So that creates a chain of trust, and there is a very neat command here, which I already actually use in our lab. The keyless generate CA command, and I’ll show you what it builds once you issue it. It builds the entire chain, so you can see here under the PKI folder, we get the certificates, the root certificate here, as you can see with its private key. And then if you go out and look at the intermediate CA, you can see its certificate with its private key. And then if you go back all the way to the issuers, we now have a root issuer, and that root issuer is what issued the certificate for the intermediate. And the intermediate is what we will use to issue the leaf certificates, as you can see under the example dot com domain. And if we go back here to PKI, you’ll see the keys. So we have an intermediate key. That’s the key that was used with the intermediate CA, and then we have a root key as well. And then I created a leaf key, which is a classic key here. So it’s as simple as just creating an encryption key like this, and then filling out the information, and it will generate a key for you. I used RSA twenty forty eight and the gateway that I’m working with. And that’s the key that we’re gonna use with our beef certificate. So if we go now to the CLI here alright. So a few steps here. First, of course, you need to authenticate into, Achilles. I’ve already done that with SAML. And then second step is generate your CA chain. We already saw that in the documentation. And then the third step is what I wanna focus on, and that’s where we’re gonna create a certificate signing request CSR. So let’s go ahead and copy this command as is. And what this is going to do, it’s going to reference that leaf key that I just showed you and export the private key. And we use the common name test dot example dot com. That’s the cert we’re gonna create. And we push that to the demo cert dot CSR file, which is here. So you can see the certificate request right here and the RSA private key right here. So if we go back and next, we want to take out or extract our private key from this file. So this file see here, begin RSA private key. We’re just running a quick set command to extract the private key into its own file. And once we do that, we can then run the final command that will issue the leaf certificate. So Akeel is get PKI certificate, so we can issue this command. And what this is going to do, it basically references the intermediate CA issuer and reference that CSR file path that we just created over here along with the demo cert key, the private key that we just saw, and that will all go to this demo cert dot pem, which references demo cert key. And this is the actual certificate with the entire chain. So you can see the leaf at the bottom, then intermediate CA certificate, and then the root CA certificate. So the entire chain is now created. So if you go back to Achilles and go back to the demo chain right here, you see a new folder shows up called certificates. And in it, you see our certificate has been created, the test dot example dot com. And if you look closely here under the certificate, you’ll see that it has the entire chain here. So as I go down, there’s the end of the first certificate, the second one, which is the CA, the intermediate CA, and then the final one, which is the leaf certificate all in here. The private key also shows up as you can see. And that was pretty easy. And from this point forward, you can continue to create different certificates and work with them. But not only that, you can actually provision the certificate onto a machine. So we can go ahead and click the attach button and then look for our target, and we have here’s our Postgres target. So we’re gonna provision the certificate with the private key onto the machine right there, and we’re gonna actually access it at this particular path on the remote machine. So varlib postgres data p g data server dot c r t. And then this is for the private key, and this is for the chain. And really, you can provision with a with a particular command to restart the postgres database. I’m just gonna put any command in here, but you would use it for whatever service that you’re actually attaching TLS to, so that you can get the that service to restart and pull in the certificate right away. So you can click attach, and that will go ahead and attach this certificate to that target machine. Excellent. So this takes us to our next part of our demo, and that is to access machines with secure remote access. So for humans to access machines securely without needing VPN, we can do that with AQUILA’s directly. Again, same product. We can jump right into it. And we have the portal right here, so you can see we have a Postgres two apps, SSH two apps. So if I go to Postgres, you can see our Postgres web client that will take us directly into our web portal for Postgres, and you can see everything you need to do here inside of this database, which is really cool. But at the same time, I can SSH into I have a Linux box, and I also have that Postgres database, so I can SSH into it. And as you can see, there’s no credentials at all that I need here. This is all taken care of. The credentials being dynamic within a keyless itself. This is all taken care of for me behind the scenes. Now that I’m inside the Postgres database, well inside the the machine that has the Postgres database, I can find that certificate that we provisioned. So varlib postgres data, p g data, and if I l s here, there we go. We have our server dot c a, server dot key, server dot cert. And if I wanna look into these, server dot c r t, cat that. Here’s my certificate, cat server dot c a. Here’s the entire chain, and then finally, cat server dot key. Here is my private key. And now if I want to see how to configure Postgres to pull this, this is again a Postgres configuration, so let’s take a quick look here at this config. So if we look at postgres dot conf and do a more postgres dot conf. If you scroll down a little bit, you’ll be able to find the SSL section. Here it is. So for SSL section, you just need to uncomment SSL cert file, the SSL CA file, and the SSL key as well. And that and from there, we can restart the service, and it will pull up the certificate, and it will be running with TLS. But again, that can be done automatically for us with with the provision and just update this command to restart the machine. And every time I hit provision, it goes out and provisions the certificate to the machine, so we can automate this and get new certificates issued and provisioned automatically for us, which is really great. I don’t have to worry about the provisioning process. It, it’s done for me automatically, and the renewal is done for me automatically, and all again in one product. Now a couple of comments here. As you can see, this is a web portal to allow you to log in to different applications that are exposed. There is also a Keyless Connect tool, which is CLI based. This allows us to here’s the documentation for it. You can download it and then use it through your CLI. You can log in through SSH to databases and other things that support a text only interface. There’s also an Akeyless tunnel mode as well, so this is where you can open a network tunnel to the remote service, allowing you to connect with your own local tools. Furthermore, Akeyless desktop is in beta right now, and it’s a more friendly user interface that you can download like a fat client on your machine, log in with SAML, for example, or OIDC. And it shows you the list of your targets that you have access to. And when you hit connect, it opens the tunnel, fetches the credentials, and launches a local application of your choice. And it’s ready to go for the target that you’ve selected. So different ways of accessing those targets are available. But the main message here is that it’s all in one tool with support from one vendor in one product that you can access together. Alright. We’re back in here inside of Achilles. And the last part of our demo today is to show you the audit logs and how it’s a very rich audit log that you can access straight within the tool itself. And, of course, like I said, you can push logs to Splunk or another SIM of your choice. So the first thing I wanna do here is look for certain actions, such as access to dynamic secret, for example. And you can see this is where we accessed the dynamic secret multiple times in the past here. Let me just filter on my ID here. So this is where we’ve accessed those dynamic secrets. We can filter on that particular action. And also, we can see things like our certificate. So the certificate that we generate, PKI certificate, we saw that we’ve created that as well. And here are the audit logs for it. Alright. So a very rich set of logs and audit logs here that you can see. Now if you wanna see session recording as well, that is available, and there are two types. There’s an RDP session recording that you can see here, and that basically allows you to create a video file of the entire session, preserving all user interactions within the remote desktop, and you can store this in an AWS s three bucket or Azure Blob Storage for long term retention and review. Also, terminal based sessions, you can do that as well for SSH sessions, database, Kubernetes, as you can see here. And that is also available, and you can forward that to external systems like Splunk, Elasticsearch, or via Syslog as well. So that is very easy and can be created and sent to, like I said, the relevant destination, and you can do that for reviewing any kind of elevated privileges or whatever else that you want to monitor with session recording. And, really, this takes us to the end of our demo. Akeyless allows us to have one platform, one control plane, zero fragmentation, multiple tools within the platform, allowing us to create dynamic secrets that are short lived, that applications can utilize, allowing us to use secure remote access for humans to access the different resources that we have, like databases, also an entire CLM for managing certificates. And finally, a very rich audit trail to be able to understand exactly what’s going on across all the tools within the platform. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in another video.

Code Repo

https://github.com/samgabrail/akeyless-cyberark

Why This Comparison Matters

The main difference between the two platforms is not a single feature. It is the architecture. CyberArk requires separate products for secrets, privileged access, and certificate lifecycle. Each has its own admin layer and rollout path.

Problem	CyberArk Product
Secrets for applications and workloads	Conjur
Privileged access for humans	CyberArk PAM
Certificate lifecycle	Venafi

Using these together means running three different security stacks. Secrets stored in one place are disconnected from access management in another. Certificates live in yet another system. Teams must line up policies across tools to get a full audit trail.

Akeyless brings these under one control plane. Secrets, access, and certificates share the same UI, policy engine, and audit model. This removes time spent translating across products.

How CyberArk Got Here: Acquisitions and Silos

CyberArk expanded by acquiring separate products rather than building a unified platform.

Year	Acquisition	Domain
2017	Conjur	Secrets
2020	Idaptive	Access
2024	Venafi	Certificates

Each tool kept its own technology base. They are bundled together commercially, but not merged technically. This creates operational silos and slows deeper integration. When customers adopt one product, they still need to onboard teams again for the next.

Akeyless avoids this split because it began as a single architecture. There is no stitching step. This is why it can scale into more capabilities without multiplying overhead.

The Akeyless Platform at a Glance

Akeyless combines secrets management, Secure Remote Access, certificate lifecycle, and key management in one place. Everything runs behind the same trust boundary and the same policy layer. There is no separate onboarding cost when teams add more use cases.

The platform is built on Distributed Fragments Cryptography, which implements a zero knowledge design so even the provider cannot view encryption keys or other secrets. This is a strong security posture without extra infrastructure. Robust secrets management and securing secrets are critical for preventing unauthorized access and data breaches, and Akeyless enables effective secrets management practices to safeguard sensitive information.

Because all three pillars are unified, the platform works the same way across cloud environments, Kubernetes, and virtual machines. Teams avoid the jump between tools and do not need to maintain separate operations runbooks.

Secrets Management: Where Most Teams First Notice the Difference

When teams start using a secrets vault, the first big test is how well it works with real applications and Kubernetes. This is where the differences between the two platforms become very clear. What should be a simple and fast onboarding step often turns into extra work with multiple tools. Akeyless takes a cleaner approach by making this part easy from day one.

Kubernetes onboarding and secret delivery

Most teams first notice the difference when they begin onboarding applications and Kubernetes workloads into a secrets vault. With CyberArk Conjur, this step becomes harder because Conjur Cloud does not ship with a native Kubernetes Secrets Injector. Teams must bolt on extra integration steps to inject secrets into workloads, which slows adoption and increases the amount of operational plumbing required to keep secrets available across environments. What was meant to be a simple way to store sensitive data often turns into more setup work than expected.

Akeyless includes a native Kubernetes Secrets Injector by default, so secrets can be delivered to workloads without extra integration steps. This speeds adoption and reduces friction between security and platform teams. Onboarding also covers new credentials and service accounts, emphasizing secure secret creation and the need to control access to sensitive information.

Once the onboarding is smooth, the next major difference shows up in how secrets behave over time.

Dynamic secrets and secure migration paths

Dynamic secrets are another key gap. Akeyless supports a wide range of databases and cloud providers, while Conjur often falls back to static secrets for common services. When teams cannot automate secret rotation for a target, manual work or scripting fills the gap. Key rotation and the use of short lived secrets are essential for reducing the risk of compromised or stolen credentials.

Akeyless also helps teams migrate from AWS Secrets Manager or other secrets management tools without starting over. This is important when consolidating systems or stepping away from vendor lock in. AWS services, Google Cloud Platform, and other cloud providers are common sources for migration. Secrets can be improved while they are being moved, not after. Migration may also involve moving from HashiCorp Vault, other tools, and on premises environments, requiring comprehensive documentation and support for multiple programming languages.

For more detail, you can explore the Akeyless secrets management capability.

In Akeyless, secrets are not a standalone point solution. They are the first step into a unified platform that later adds access and certificate lifecycle without changing tools. A key feature of robust enterprise security is the ability to use secrets managers and a centralized secrets management platform to store secrets, manage access, and ensure compliance with industry standards.

The next gap: static vs dynamic credentials

Once onboarding is well underway, the next major limitation shows up in how secrets behave over time. With Conjur, coverage for dynamic secrets is limited across many common databases and cloud providers. This leads teams back to static credentials and manual rotation, which increases risk and adds maintenance overhead.

Dynamic secrets and automated rotation

Dynamic secrets are transforming the way organizations approach secrets management by enabling the creation of short lived, purpose specific credentials that are generated on demand. Unlike static secrets, which can linger in systems and become a target for attackers, dynamic secrets are issued only when needed and expire automatically, significantly reducing the risk of compromised credentials. This approach limits the attack surface and protects sensitive data even if a credential is intercepted.

Akeyless includes automated rotation for secrets such as database credentials, API keys, and encryption keys, which ensures that credentials are refreshed regularly without manual intervention. This helps organizations manage secrets more effectively and reduces the chance of expired secrets or forgotten credentials lingering in a production environment.

By leveraging dynamic secrets and built in automation, teams reduce operational overhead and shrink blast radius while improving the overall security posture of their CI/CD pipelines and application environments.

Access Management and Machine Identities

Once secrets are secured and rotated, the next question becomes who or what is allowed to use them. This is where most legacy approaches split identity into two different paths: one system for people and another system for workloads. That divide creates more policy surfaces to maintain and more review points during audits.

Modern infrastructure relies heavily on machine identities, not just user accounts. Workloads, CI pipelines, and services often require access without human presence, but traditional PAM tools focus almost entirely on privileged users. This leaves a coverage gap where automated systems rely on static credentials or separate tooling.

Akeyless treats access management for both humans and machines as part of the same platform. The same policy boundary that governs secret creation also governs who or what can use them. You can see how this extends to non-human identity in the Akeyless blog on
non-human identity management and universal identity.

This removes the need for separate trust systems and keeps machine identity and human identity aligned under one control plane, making just in time access a natural extension of secrets rather than a separate product.

Secure Remote Access: Modern PAM Without the Heavy Footprint

Once secrets are under control, the next gap usually appears in human access to sensitive systems. This is where traditional PAM solutions start to feel heavy. Older PAM models rely on shared admin accounts, long lived credentials, and jump servers. These patterns slow engineers down and increase risk by creating a single place where attackers can gain a foothold.

Jump hosts become high value targets because once they are compromised, everything behind them is exposed. These systems also add more moving parts for teams who already manage complex infrastructure. Instead of reducing the attack surface, they shift it into a bottleneck.

Akeyless Secure Remote Access removes this layer. Access is short lived by default, so there are no stored ssh keys or standing credentials. Sessions are recorded automatically and tied to identity. Users connect with native tools without going through a separate portal. This brings least privilege into daily workflow without extra friction.

For teams that want to understand how the approach works in more detail, check out the remote access overview.

This design treats access as part of secrets management rather than a separate system. Because everything lives in the same platform, there is no second policy engine and no second audit system to maintain. What used to require two products is now one.

Certificate Lifecycle Management in the Same Platform

The next part of the identity story is certificates. In the CyberArk world, certificates are handled by Venafi, which remains a standalone product with its own admin workflow. This means the lifecycle of certificates is disconnected from the lifecycle of secrets and access. When identity is split across tools, it becomes harder to track which system issued what and who owns the policy for it.

Akeyless keeps certificate lifecycle management inside the same platform that handles secrets and just in time access. This removes the overhead of wiring trust between tools. Issuing, renewing, and revoking certificates happens from the same console and the same API that teams already use for other identity functions.

ACME support lets workloads renew certificates automatically without manual touchpoints. Instead of wiring a separate service just for certificates, the same trust boundary that protects secrets also protects cryptographic keys used for TLS. This reduces the number of drifting components that can fall out of sync.

Because CLM is not separated from the rest of the platform, expiry risk goes down. Old or expired certificates are caught sooner because operators are already in the console for other daily tasks. This turns lifecycle management into part of normal platform operations instead of an extra module.

Compliance and Trust

Once secret rotation, remote access, and certificates share the same trust boundary, compliance improves as a natural outcome. Instead of pulling logs and audit data from multiple systems, everything lives in one place. Security teams do not have to reconcile reports or prove linkage between external vaults and access tools.

Short lived credentials reduce audit scope and show that the system limits exposure windows. Session logs for remote access are captured next to secret usage, so reviewers do not need to cross check two platforms. Certificates are also tied to the same identity model, so their lifecycle can be traced without a separate evidence trail.

The result is faster preparation for assessments and lower time spent collecting proof. This is not because of a single feature, but because the system stays unified end to end.

Hidden Costs and Day 2 Operations

When coverage is split across products, operational cost rises. Each upgrade is separate. Each support path is separate. Each onboarding requires its own process. Security teams handle policy drift. Platform teams handle integration drift. The weight accumulates over time.

When these functions move under one control plane, there is only one lifecycle to manage. This lowers the time spent maintaining glue code and reduces the number of touchpoints during incidents or audits. The platform becomes easier to run because it does not multiply itself as it grows.

This is why teams who start with secrets often end up consolidating PAM and certificate workflows into Akeyless as well. The unified footprint becomes easier to operate than stitching two or three separate solutions together.

Demo Walkthrough: Securing PostgreSQL End to End

This walkthrough shows how one platform manages everything around a PostgreSQL database. Instead of switching between different tools for secrets, certificates, and access, everything is controlled from the same console and the same policy boundary.

Step 1: On-Demand Dynamic Secret.

The demo begins in the Akeyless console under Secrets.
A dynamic Postgres credential is created on demand instead of being stored as a static password. This is the kind of credential an application or microservice would request at runtime to connect to the database, rather than loading a password from a secrets file or environment variable. The UI shows the short lease attached to it, along with the policy that governs its usage.

When the lease expires, the credential is revoked automatically. There is no manual cleanup and no leftover password that can be reused or stolen later. This pattern limits exposure and reduces the risk of compromised credentials lingering in a system. Below is a screenshot showing a newly created just in time dynamic secret with It’s time to live.

Step 2: Certificate Issuance from the Same Control Plane

Next, we stay inside the same console and navigate to the certificate section. The database is issued a TLS certificate through the same platform policy that governs secrets. There is no separate CA system to configure and no second product like Venafi to manage lifecycle tasks.

The workflow is consistent: request, issue, and govern from one place. Because certificates are part of the same trust model, renewal and revocation happen without extra infrastructure or parallel policy engines. Below is a screenshot showing how easily we can generate a PKI leaf certificate from an intermediate CA with a full chain of trust.

Not only that, but we can also go ahead and provision the certificate with the private key and CA directly on the PostgreSQL machine using secure remote access, which takes us to the next step: accessing the database securely.

Step 3: Just-in-Time Secure Remote Access

The third step is human access.

Instead of connecting by VPN or with a shared SSH key, the engineer launches a just-in-time session using Secure Remote Access. The platform issues a short-lived credential just for this connection and records the entire session in real time. When the engineer disconnects, the credential expires immediately.

This avoids standing privileges and makes privileged access auditable without a separate PAM product. Human access follows the same control plane used for application secrets and certificates. Below we see a screenshot of the Secure Remote Access Portal exposing two apps. One is to to our PostgreSQL database via a web interface and the other gives us access to that same database via SSH. When we login via SSH we get to see the certificates and private key we provisioned in the previous step.

Step 4: One Unified Audit Trail

The walkthrough ends in the Audit and Reporting view. The secret request, the certificate issuance, and the remote session all appear in the same log stream. They are covered by the same policy and tied to the same identity context. There is no need to reconcile logs across three different systems.

This unified audit makes it easier to prove policy enforcement and detect anomalies early. It also reduces operational overhead because the team manages one system instead of stitching together separate tools.

For session recording, we have the ability to view video recordings during an Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP )session. These recordings would be sent to an external storage system such as an AWS S3 bucket or an Azure Blob storage for long-term retention and review.

As for terminal based sessions such as SSH or database, a full transcript of commands entered are available. You can learn more about RDP and SSH Session Management in the docs.

Demo Conclusion

With one PostgreSQL database, the demo shows how secrets, certificates, and secure remote access can be managed in a single platform. The same control plane governs app-to-database authentication, machine identity, and human access. Nothing is bolted on or integrated after the fact. This is one lifecycle, one audit path, and one trust boundary.

Mini Comparison Table

Need	Akeyless	CyberArk Stack
One UI and API	Single platform for secrets, access, and certificates	Separate consoles for Conjur and Venafi
Kubernetes onboarding	Includes a Kubernetes Secrets Injector	Conjur Cloud does not ship with an injector
Dynamic DB secrets	Broad coverage across major databases	Requires static secrets for many targets
CLM footprint	Built in with one policy model	Venafi is a separate product with its own admin path

Summary

Most teams do not want several tools to handle secrets, access, and certificates. CyberArk brings these as separate products, each with its own setup and policy model. That gives teams more moving parts to run and more places where things can break or drift.

Akeyless puts secrets, short lived access, and certificate lifecycle in one platform. One control plane, one audit trail, and one policy layer. This simplifies operations, cuts onboarding time, and removes the glue work between systems.

The result is a security platform that grows with the team instead of weighing it down.

FAQ

What is the difference between CyberArk and Akeyless?

CyberArk splits capabilities across different products like Conjur and Venafi. Akeyless is one SaaS platform for secrets management, secure remote access, and certificate lifecycle management under one policy and one audit log.

What is CyberArk Conjur used for?

Conjur manages application secrets, but teams often need other tools for PAM and certificates. This means more consoles and more policy surfaces to manage.

What is a PAM solution?

Privileged Access Management controls privileged users and how they reach sensitive systems. Modern PAM removes standing access, issues short lived secrets for each session, and records activity for audit logs.

What is modern PAM with Akeyless?

Akeyless Secure Remote Access gives just in time access without VPNs or shared ssh keys. Sessions are recorded, access policies are unified with secrets, and everything runs in the same platform. Learn more:

What is a dynamic secret?

A dynamic secret is created on demand for a short time and then expires. It replaces static secrets and lowers risk for database credentials, API keys, and other sensitive data in production environments.

What does rotating secrets mean?

Secret rotation replaces credentials on a schedule or after use. Automated rotation with short lived secrets reduces the chance of compromised credentials and removes manual work.

What is certificate lifecycle management?

CLM issues, renews, and revokes certificates for secure communication and machine identities. With Akeyless, CLM runs in the same UI and API as secrets and access. Here are some details.