Question 1

What is Akeyless?

Accepted Answer

Akeyless is an Identity Security Platform for securing machine, AI agent, and human identities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. It combines secrets management, Modern PAM, certificate lifecycle management, encryption and KMS, Multi-Vault Governance, and AI agent security in one platform.

Question 2

Is Akeyless a secrets manager?

Accepted Answer

Akeyless includes enterprise secrets management, but the platform extends beyond storing and rotating secrets. It also supports short-lived, identity-based access, privileged access, certificates, encryption keys, machine identities, and AI agent security.

Question 3

What is secretless access?

Accepted Answer

Secretless access lets applications, workloads, and other identities authenticate and access resources without storing long-lived credentials. Akeyless can issue short-lived, just-in-time credentials when access is required and automatically expire or revoke them afterward.

Question 4

How does Akeyless secure AI agents?

Accepted Answer

Akeyless keeps credentials out of AI agents and governs their access to enterprise systems. SecretlessAI® brokers just-in-time access without exposing credentials to the agent, while Agentic Runtime Authority evaluates and enforces what agents are allowed to do at runtime.

Question 5

How does Akeyless protect encryption keys and secrets?

Accepted Answer

Akeyless uses patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ (DFC) as the foundation of its Zero-Knowledge Architecture. Key fragments are generated and stored separately, cryptographic operations are performed without assembling the full key, and the customer retains control of a required fragment in their own environment. This means Akeyless cannot access or reconstruct customer keys and secrets.

Question 6

Does Akeyless support machine and workload identities?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Akeyless supports authentication and access for applications, workloads, services, automation, and other non-human identities using methods including cloud identities, Kubernetes identities, certificates, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.

Question 7

Can Akeyless be used across multiple clouds and on-prem environments?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Akeyless is designed for cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, with a SaaS control plane and customer-deployed Gateways for local access, policy enforcement, and cryptographic operations.

Secure Application, Workload, and AI Agent Access

Documentation

Tutorials

Unified Platform Capabilities

AI Security

Secrets Management

Certificate Lifecycle Management

Universal Secrets Connector / Multi-Vault Governance

Encryption & Key Management

Modern PAM / Secure Remote Access

Password Manager

Platform extensions

Modern PAM / Secure Remote Access

Encryption & KMS

Password Manager

Frequently Asked Questions