Every copy of a secret is an open door
Passwords, API keys, tokens and certificates multiply with cloud, automation and AI agents. They end up in code, pipelines, sheets. The average cost of a breach? $4.4 million (source: IBM).
One identity, one safe
Vault authenticates every person, machine, service or AI agent and decides what it can read, for how long, under which policies. Everything traced, everything revocable. Instead of fixed, shared, never-rotated passwords, it issues dynamic ephemeral credentials: dedicated, time-boxed, self-expiring.
It's the best credential: the one that isn't there when the attacker looks for it.
Certificates that renew themselves
Public TLS certificate lifetimes will drop to as low as 47 days: renewing by hand will no longer be an option. Vault's PKI secret engine issues, renews and revokes certificates via API — and with IBM Concert the discovery of expiring certificates is orchestrated end-to-end.
Encryption as a service: applications encrypt and decrypt via API, keys never leave the safe. And Vault Radar hunts down secrets already exposed in repositories and chats, before someone else finds them.
How we start
You start small and grow: the first use case in production is worth more than any roadmap.
- Assessment: where your secrets live today
- Vault in high availability, on-prem or cloud
- App onboarding: rotation, PKI, encryption
- Patches, upgrades and monitoring 24/7