Akeyless Security Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Gartner defines privileged access management (PAM) as tools that provide an elevated level of technical access through the management and protection of accounts, credentials and commands, which are used to administer or configure systems and applications. PAM tools — available as software, SaaS or hardware appliances — manage privileged access for both people (system administrators and others) and machines (systems or applications). Gartner defines five distinct tool categories for PAM tools: privileged account and session management (PASM), privilege elevation and delegation management (PEDM), secrets management, cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and remote PAM (RPAM). Privileged access is access beyond the normal level granted to both human and machine accounts. It allows users to override existing access controls, change security configurations, or make changes affecting multiple users or systems. As privileged access can create, modify and delete IT infrastructure, along with company data contained in that infrastructure, it presents catastrophic risk. Managing privileged access is thus a critical security function for every organization and requires a specific set of procedures and tools. PAM tools focus on either privileged accounts or privileged commands.
Gartner defines five distinct tool categories for PAM tools:
privileged account and session management (PASM)
privilege elevation and delegation management (PEDM)
secrets management
cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM)
remote PAM (RPAM)

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Akeyless Identity Security Platform

Akeyless Security

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Our overall experience with Akeyless has been positive. The platform offers a modern and flexible approach to secrets management, privileged access, and secure remote access.

10B - 30B USD

50M - 250M USD

<50M USD

3B - 10B USD

250M - 500M USD

Vice President

A robust and user friendly platform that has significantly streamlined our secrets management process.

Engineering Manager

Overall, The akeyless product survey and poc experience was very positive, the team found setup straightforward, documentation clear and code workflows easy to validate. support was responsive and the platform showed the strong potential for secure, scalable securement management in our environment. 

Palo Alto Networks (CyberArk)

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Akeyless provides identity security for the modern enterprise, delivering a unified Secrets & Non-Human Identity platform designed to prevent compromised machine identities and secrets throughout the development and production cycle. With customers that include Fortune 100 companies and industry leaders, Akeyless Security delivers a cloud-native SaaS platform that supports holistic security for all aspects of machine identities, integrating Vaultless Secrets Management with Certificate Lifecycle Management, Next Gen Privileged Access (Secure Remote Access), and Encryption Key Management to manage the lifecycle of machine identities and secrets across cloud and on-prem environments. 

Akeyless Security is the company behind Akeyless Vaultless‚Ñ¢ Platform, a cloud-native SaaS-based approach to help manage enterprise secrets - credentials, certificates, and keys - while effectively phasing out conventional vaults and slashing associated costs by up to 70%. Designed for Infosec and DevOps professionals in enterprise hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the Akeyless platform efficiently controls secrets sprawl and automates secrets management. 

The platform also provides extensions to Secure Remote Access, Key Management and Password Management solutions. Leveraging patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC‚Ñ¢), Akeyless is a trusted partner of many Fortune 500 companies and enables them to have safe and complete control over their secrets.

Akeyless

Akeyless Security offers the Akeyless Vaultless‚Ñ¢ Platform, a cloud-based solution to manage enterprise secrets such as credentials, certificates, and keys. This technology reduces the need for traditional vaults and could potentially decrease related costs by up to 70%. The platform is designed for Infosec and DevOps professionals operating in hybrid and multi-cloud corporate environments. It aims to streamline secrets management and control secrets sprawl. The Akeyless Vaultless‚Ñ¢ Platform extends to Secure Remote Access, Key Management and Password Management solutions. The company’s propriety Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC‚Ñ¢) is at the heart of its operations.

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Favorable Review

Smooth cloud onboarding, though outage handling and autoscaling lack clarity

Critical Review

Secrets Management Streamlined by Akeyless, While UI Intuitiveness Remains a Concern

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