Stop On-Prem Breaches Without Disrupting Business-Critical Systems

Transform legacy systems with dynamic identities. No Downtime, No Rewrites, No Excuses.

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Challenges

Decades of static credentials piling up

Even as enterprises modernize, critical systems remain on-prem including data centers and private clouds to legacy apps, mainframes, and edge servers. But these environments often depend on overprivileged service accounts, long-lived secrets, and error-prone certificate management. Sprawl grows as these credentials connect into cloud and SaaS, creating hidden attack paths, operational toil, and governance gaps.

Fixing the hidden risks in legacy systems

Defakto brings modern identity to every on-prem environment, eliminating secrets and unifying governance across legacy and cloud-native systems.

Defakto’s universal identity model for on-premises

Defakto replaces static credentials and service accounts with short-lived, verifiable identities for all non-human actors, from servers and VMs to internal services and edge devices.

  • Eliminate Active Directory sprawl and reduce AD service accounts by 90%
  • Replace error-prone certificate management and end certificate expiration outages
  • Enforce least privilege for apps, services, and workloads on-prem
  • Govern access consistently across private infrastructure and cloud
  • Gain visibility into every request, certificate, and connection

Capabilities

Delivering controls for on-premises

Servers & VMs

Issue ephemeral identities to Windows, Linux, and virtualized systems, eliminating local accounts and embedded credentials.

Private cloud platforms

Secure VMware, OpenStack, and other on-prem orchestration platforms without shared secrets or manual rotations.

Legacy applications & mainframes

Securely replace embedded credentials in apps that connect to databases, middleware, or APIs without modifying existing code.

Certificates & keys

Automate issuance of TLS, SSH, and code-signing credentials with short-lived, verifiable identity.

Edge & colocation systems

Extend automated identity to branch servers and remote infrastructure with the same policies as core environments.

Unified Defakto layer

Bring all privately managed infrastructure, from data centers to edge, under one consistent identity fabric.

Business outcomes

Secure legacy without disruptions

Protect critical on-prem systems without rewrites or downtime. Here’s what Defakto makes possible for your on-prem environments:

Protect critical systems

Secure the workloads that keep the business running, even if they can’t move to the cloud.

Reduce risk

Legacy systems are no longer isolated; remove unmanaged accounts, static secrets, and error-prone certificates.

Bridge to the future

Strengthen on-prem security today while preparing for hybrid and cloud tomorrow.

Simplify compliance

Unified visibility and controls across legacy and regulated systems.

Lower operational burden

Eliminate manual rotations, credential sprawl, and fragmented IAM practices.