Close the Gaps in Your Secrets Management, Before They’re Exploited
Protecting secrets alone isn’t enough, your machine identities are just as critical.
The Gartner® report, “Innovation Insight: Improve Security With Machine Identity and Access Management” highlights a critical finding: “Machine identity governance is typically siloed and inconsistent, leading to conflicting priorities that result in reduced security, increased admin costs, delays in provisioning and more frequent security incidents.”
With machines now outnumbering human identities and growing rapidly through cloud adoption, automation, and AI, organizations face significant risks from inadequate machine IAM controls.
Akeyless delivers a comprehensive solution—unifying machine identity management and secrets protection in a single platform. Secure your workloads, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps pipelines while maintaining centralized governance and continuous verification.
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Gartner Requirement (as per “Innovation Insight: Improve Security With Machine Identity and Access Management,” March 11, 2025)
Akeyless Platform Capabilities
Centralize Governance
Centralized secrets management; Role-Based Access Control (RBAC); Policy enforcement for machine identities; Integration with external IAMs for unified identity approach. Further, with Akeyless Universal Connector, enterprises can govern secrets in any vault, in any cloud and in any environment centrally.
Improve Visibility and Observability Through Continuous Discovery and Monitoring
Comprehensive audit logs & secret usage insights; Log forwarding; Event Center with integrations to SIEMs, ServiceNow, Slack, MS Teams (via Webhook).
Secure Machine Authentication and Implement Machine-to-Machine Trust
Support for various authentication methods (e.g., AWS IAM, Azure AD, GCP GCE, Kubernetes); Secure introduction for new machines; Dynamic secrets for unique, short-lived credentials.
Secrets Management
Secure vaulting of static and dynamic secrets; Automated secret rotation; Just-in-Time (JIT) secrets; Encryption in transit and at rest; Secrets caching; SDKs and plugins for easy integration.
PKI and Certificate Management
Offers full Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) capabilities, with complete support for the management, provisioning, automatic renewal, and revocation of digital certificates and keys, ensuring strong machine authentication and security.
Accelerate Service Delivery Through Automation
Dynamic secrets providing on-demand credentials; Automated rotation removing manual overhead; API-driven approach for CI/CD and DevOps integration; Plugins for various tools and platforms.
Establish a machine IAM strategy and define a taxonomy
Akeyless provides a foundational platform to build and enforce a machine IAM strategy, managing diverse secret types which align with a machine identity taxonomy.
Understand machine identity use cases and define a roadmap
Platform flexibility supports a wide array of use cases (cloud, on-prem, DevOps, applications); Centralized management aids in phased roadmap implementation and risk prioritization.
Source: Gartner, Innovation Insight: Improve Security With Machine Identity and Access Management, Steve Wessels, Felix Gaehtgens, Michael Kelley, Erik Wahlstrom, 11 March 2025.
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