Short‑lived secrets have transformed our cloud access and now greatly reduce credential risk
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Akeyless Secrets Management is using the static and dynamic secrets functionality. Rather than using static keys within cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, we use Akeyless Secrets Management to generate short-lived access credentials to then authenticate to cloud environments.
We also use Akeyless Secrets Management when integrating with third-party tools. When an integration needs to occur between one of our public clouds and a third-party vendor, you would sometimes have to put in a static key on the third-party tool's side. Rather than using a JSON key created directly on a cloud platform, we create it via Akeyless Secrets Management and then enable automatic rotation and upload that onto the third-party tool provider website. This applies to both code-based and UI-based use cases.
What is most valuable?
I appreciate that Akeyless Secrets Management offers the ability for secrets to be automatically rotated. When interacting with it via code, Akeyless Secrets Management automatically rotates secrets to increase security. Additionally, I understand that Akeyless Secrets Management does not store the entire secret in one string on their side. The secret is split across different servers, which is extremely secure.
The rotation of secrets aspect of Akeyless Secrets Management is excellent. It allows for much higher security and there is a great reduction in potential exploits or attacks to our infrastructure because it is very difficult to get compromised credentials when they rotate so regularly. Akeyless Secrets Management splitting secrets in terms of their storage also means that even if an attacker were to infiltrate Akeyless Secrets Management's infrastructure, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to get the full credentials. This security is excellent for us and also for our customers.
Using Akeyless Secrets Management has greatly increased our security posture, which is excellent and definitely reduces the risk of potential attacks or exploits. From a security-specific perspective, this is excellent when looking at things like data security. It has improved our data security posture. In terms of financial governance, if we were to be exploited in cloud environments, costs can very quickly ramp up. Using Akeyless Secrets Management actually saves potential costs as well.
What needs improvement?
I do not believe there are any improvements needed for Akeyless Secrets Management. It works excellently for what it aims to do. The UI on Akeyless Secrets Management is also very easy to use, which is important because engineers across a business would use this. It is not just one team that uses it; everyone would use it. Akeyless Secrets Management achieves its aims perfectly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Akeyless Secrets Management for two years.
What other advice do I have?
Akeyless Secrets Management was not purchased through the AWS Marketplace. It was purchased directly with the vendor, but it interacts with AWS because it links with the AWS cloud.
I would recommend others to use Akeyless Secrets Management. It is a brilliant security platform. It is very easy to use. It does exactly what it says it should. I would highly recommend people to use it.
I would say the risk reduction of the compromise of long-lived static credentials is over fifty percent, which is excellent because if every static credential is created through Akeyless Secrets Management, it greatly reduces the risk. Arguably it would be somewhere between fifty to ninety-nine percent.
I have given this product a rating of ten out of ten.
Effortless Secret Saving Makes Life Easier
What do you like best about the product?
Saving Secrets is very easy in Akeyless.
What do you dislike about the product?
Accessing secrets from an api and integrating
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Previously, misplacing secrets was a significant concern for us. However, by implementing akeyless, we have managed to resolve this issue.
Centralized secret management that works
What do you like best about the product?
Unified Secrets Management. Compliance & Security Posture
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing Transparency. UI & Workflow Navigation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Infrastructure & Maintenance Overhead.
Cost-Effective All-in-One Solution with Great Support
What do you like best about the product?
I find Akeyless Platform incredibly beneficial for efficient password management and software license management, solving many of our earlier problems. The role-based approach is very helpful. I value the cost-effectiveness and appreciate the excellent customer support. The platform's broad range of features means I don't need multiple applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
NA
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Akeyless Platform solves our license management problems and excels in password management, making these processes much easier. Its cost-effectiveness, excellent customer support, and wide range of features replace multiple applications for us.
Akeyless Platform
What do you like best about the product?
The Akeyless Platform is ease to use and the customer support is great.And for the number of features and Ease of Implementation to our current system.
What do you dislike about the product?
they are no issues as of now in the akeyless platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The certificate management is very much resolved because of this software and also the passwords managers also is useful a lot.
The Akeyless Platform best in the market.
What do you like best about the product?
The software is easy to implement with your company and also very easy to use. The customer support is also very much good. And they have a lot of features.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislikes as of now. Everything is fine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform is very much useful for our certificate lifecycle and also the encryption key management.
Excellent product to use highly recommended
What do you like best about the product?
The product is cloud based and very easy to implement and the current process used in the organization for handling certificates because of the ease of integration which makes the work easy and effective.The customer support is also good.And thanks to the number of features as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much at the moment every thing is fine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is mainly used for the security managment and certificates lifecycle as well.
Superpower your security
What do you like best about the product?
Akeyless offers a great toolset and framework for building security solutions that fit your needs and elevate the security of your workloads. Having identity-based authentication JIT access, and a complete suite of audit logs makes it a great tool for bouncing your infrastructure and services.
Additionally Akeyless team involves from day 0 and it's very helpfull and supportive, powering a quick onboarding.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any specific issue with Akeyless Platform. Just noticing it may be a complex technology depending on the technical capabilities and resources, so it requires some time and effort investment to integrate your workflows and technologies if you want to have all the benefits of using Akeyless.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Just in time access, dynamic secrets, identity-based authentication.
akeyless secret management
What do you like best about the product?
its integrations and ease of use (ansible, gcp, etc)
What do you dislike about the product?
At the moment I don't see anything that makes me dislike the product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
combining it with ESO, using it in ansible playbooks
Akeyless is the security multi-tool we all need.
What do you like best about the product?
Akeyless is a one-stop shop for everything — storing secrets, identity services, connecting to third-party tools, encryption, and more. It really is a unified identity platform, just like they say. New features and integrations keep coming to match changing needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
One big downside is the UI. It’s not very smooth and takes extra time to find things. Some basic features are missing, like being able to resize columns or adjust the layout.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Akeyless helps store and manage secrets like API keys, database credentials and other sensitive items used in services' activity in a secure way, so they’re not hardcoded or scattered.
It also manages encryption keys centrally, which lets you use same key across different platforms or clouds, without CMEK headache.
