From Secret Sprawl to Zero Secrets Architecture

Defakto eradicates static secrets by issuing short-lived identities at runtime. No vaults. No rotations. No humans in the loop.

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287 days average time to detect a breach, 73% of orgs hit by secrets-related incidents, 40% of outages are caused by failed secret rotations

Challenges

Secrets are breaking security

Secrets don’t just leak. They break builds, cause outages, and hide risk in the systems that automate and scale your business. From OAuth client secrets and database passwords to Cloud and LLM API keys, these static credentials are everywhere. Designed for a different era, they don’t fit today’s non-stop code pipelines, autonomous AI agents, or dynamic service-to-service networks. As companies scale, there is more automation, more cost, less oversight, and an attack surface growing faster than security can keep up.

Defakto eliminates the hidden risk in your stack

Traditional secrets management leaves secrets sprawl in place. Defakto removes the need for secrets entirely, issuing short-lived, verifiable identities for every workload, pipeline, and AI agent. No hardcoded keys, no over-permissioned accounts, no hidden credentials, no escalating costs. A modern and resilient approach that scales as fast as your infrastructure.

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From secrets to identity: a new model for securing automation

Defakto secures your infrastructure by removing humans from the loop and replacing every static secret with short-lived, purpose-bound identity.

When a CI/CD job runs, a container starts, or an AI agent calls an internal service:

  • Defakto evaluates context in real time
  • Then issues a verifiable identity, scoped to its role and need
  • No standing access. No long-lived secrets. No ticket queues or manual approvals

Access is automatic, auditable, and enforced through identity—not secrets.

Defakto Capabilities

Replace secrets with real-time identity

Just-in-time identity issuance

Every job, container, service and other non-human actor gets a secure identity at the moment it runs. No storage, sharing, or secrets rotation.

No long lived credentials

Access expires automatically, There’s nothing for threat actors to steal or use to move laterally.

Policy-first enforcement

Access is based on who the actor is – not static IPs, locations, or credentials.

Full observability

Every issued identity, access decision, and request is logged and attributable.

No-code deployment

Identity that drops into your environment without rewrites or disruptions.

Defakto Business Impact

What you get when secrets go away

Fewer outages, better compliance, stronger Zero Trust — here’s the business value of replacing secrets with identity.

Reduce blast radius

Without static credentials, there’s nothing to steal, leak, or use to move laterally. Access is scoped, verified, and temporary.

End identity debt, cut costs

Secrets pile up risk and expense. Defakto replaces them with self-governing identity that eliminates both.

Increase system resilience

Misconfigured secrets and expired tokens no longer cause outages. Identity is issued dynamically. No manual rotation, no error-prone dependencies.

Unify security and operations

Defakto simplifies access control across environments. Security teams gain visibility. DevOps gains speed. No more fire drills.

Build zero trust

Ephemeral, policy-enforced identity ensures workloads only access what they should and when they should.

Pass audits without the scramble

Every access event is logged, attributed, and verifiable. No shadow credentials. No undocumented access.