Secure secrets and workload identities at scale
Machine identities now outnumber humans 82:1, and every workload depends on secrets or identity to operate. CyberArk Secure Secrets and Workloads unifies discovery, governance, and authentication across hybrid and multicloud environments—reducing vault sprawl, helps eliminate long-lived credentials, and enabling short-lived, identity-based access for modern workloads without disrupting developers.
CHALLENGES
Machine identities are scaling faster than security teams can manage
Modern enterprises run thousands of workloads—applications, containers, services, and automation—across hybrid, multicloud, and cloud-native environments. Every workload must be authenticated and authorized using a machine identity. As environments scale, secrets, identities, and vaults multiply just as fast, creating fragmented governance, limited visibility, and operational strain that traditional tools and manual processes can no longer manage.
Secrets and vault sprawl create security blind spots
As organizations scale applications, containers, and automation, secrets spread across cloud vaults, pipelines, and code. This sprawl fragments visibility and access controls, creating blind spots security teams cannot govern consistently.
Manual processes introduce risk and inefficiency
Manually rotating secrets, updating access, and managing exceptions slow teams down and introduce human error. As workloads scale, these processes increase misconfigurations and create security gaps.
Workload authentication is inconsistent and fragmented
Workloads authenticate and authorize differently across environments, relying on static credentials or platform-specific controls. This inconsistency makes it difficult to enforce least privilege and standardized security policies.
Audit gaps in secrets and workload governance
Security teams lack centralized visibility into workload access. Disconnected tools and inconsistent policies make it hard to prove ownership, enforce access controls and demonstrate audit compliance.
SOLUTIONS
Secure Secrets and Workloads
CyberArk Secure Secrets and Workloads provides a unified approach to securing the machine identities that power modern applications. The solution centralizes discovery, governance, and policy enforcement for secrets and workload access across hybrid, multicloud, and cloud-native environments—without disrupting developer workflows or forcing migrations.
Control Vault and Secrets Sprawl
CyberArk centralizes visibility and control for secrets and workload authentication across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Security teams gain a single source of truth for where secrets live, how workloads authenticate, and who has access—reducing blind spots created by vault sprawl, disconnected tools, and inconsistent policies. Native integrations allow teams to govern secrets and workload access across existing cloud vaults and platforms without forcing developers to change how they build or deploy.
Modernize Secrets Management
CyberArk automates the full lifecycle of secrets—discovery, rotation, expiration, and retirement—reducing manual effort and human error. By enforcing consistent policies across environments, help security teams eliminate hardcoded, long-lived credentials while improving operational efficiency. Developers continue using familiar tools and workflows while secrets are delivered securely and managed centrally, at scale.
Enabel Modern Worload Access
CyberArk enables workloads to authenticate using trusted, centrally governed machine identities—whether through dynamic secrets, short-lived identities, or securely managed traditional credentials. This approach enforces least privilege, reduces excessive access, and limits blast radius, while allowing teams to secure workload access without disrupting existing architectures or workflows.
KEY CAPABILITIES & FEATURES
Unified security for secrets and workload identities
CyberArk Secure Secrets and Workloads brings together secrets management, centralized governance, and secure workload access into a single solution. Organizations can protect credentials, govern machine identities, and enable trusted workload authentication across hybrid, multicloud, and cloud-native environments—without disrupting existing architectures or developer workflows.
CyberArk Secrets Manager
Centrally manage, rotate, and govern secrets with a consistent experience across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments—ensuring standardized policies and trusted access regardless of platform.
CyberArk Secrets Hub
Centrally manage, rotate, and govern secrets with a consistent experience across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments—ensuring standardized policies and trusted access regardless of platform.
CyberArk Credential Providers
Secure static applications, third-party software, and automation tools by delivering trusted credentials just-in-time, without hardcoding secrets or requiring application changes.
Continuous discovery
Uncover risks with continuous discovery of unmanaged accounts and secrets. Automatically onboard them into a centralized system to ensure consistent security policies and reduce attack surfaces.
Secure workload access
Provide workloads with secure, least-privilege access using trusted identities or managed secrets—reducing excessive access and enabling consistent policies across environments.
BENEFITS & VALUES
Why securing secrets and workloads has become a critical business risk
As machine identities scale across hybrid and multicloud environments, secrets and workload access become fragmented, hard to govern, and difficult to audit. Disconnected vaults, manual processes, and inconsistent identity controls create security blind spots that increase breach risk, slow investigations, and complicate compliance across the enterprise.
Struggle with cloud security silos
Lack a unified machine identity strategy
Face growing secrets management risk
34%
Have no visibility into third-party vaults
Cannot quickly rotate or revoke credentials
Lack visibility to prove secrets governance
RESOURCES
Explore how to secure secrets and workloads at enterprise scale
Learn how security teams gain visibility, governance, and control over secrets and workload access across hybrid and multicloud environments—without disrupting developers or existing platforms.
FAQ
Common questions about securing secrets and workload
Most organizations underestimate how many secrets and vaults they operate across cloud, DevOps, and third-party tools. CyberArk provides centralized discovery and visibility across existing vaults and environments, helping security teams understand ownership, usage, and risk without forcing teams to change how they work.
No. CyberArk is designed to work with the most popular cloud vaults and tools you already use. Security teams can maintain existing cloud-native and third-party vaults while applying centralized governance, policy enforcement, and audit visibility across them. This allows organizations to reduce sprawl without disrupting teams or workflows.
CyberArk is built to align with developer workflows, not disrupt them. Developers continue using familiar tools and patterns, while security teams gain the visibility, control, and automation needed to reduce risk. This shared model helps security and development teams collaborate more effectively without slowing delivery.
CyberArk enables workloads to access resources using least-privilege, identity-based access rather than relying on long-lived credentials. This reduces standing access, limits blast radius, and helps security teams enforce consistent controls across dynamic, automated environments.
CyberArk centralizes visibility, policy enforcement, and audit trails across secrets and workload access. Security teams can quickly answer who accessed what, when, and under which controls—reducing audit preparation time and improving compliance across cloud, hybrid, and third-party environments.
Yes. CyberArk supports a phased approach, allowing organizations to start with visibility and governance, then expand into automation and secure workload access over time. This flexibility helps teams modernize security at their own pace without a “rip and replace” mandate.
CyberArk Secure Secrets and Workloads complements CyberArk Privileged Access Manager by extending identity security beyond human users to workloads, applications, and automation. While PAM secures privileged human access and sessions, Secure Secrets and Workloads governs non-human identities, secrets, and workload access—giving security teams unified visibility, policy consistency, and auditability across both human and machine identities.
Secure every secret and workload—without slowing development
See how CyberArk unifies secrets management and secure workload access across hybrid and multicloud environments. Get centralized visibility, consistent policy enforcement, and a clear path to modern workload identity—all without disrupting existing tools or workflows.
