Secure Every Automated Interaction with Real Identity
Defakto puts identity at the heart of automation by securing every non-human interaction with dynamic, verifiable identities. Replace secrets and standing access with dynamic, verifiable identities so every automated action is secure, auditable, and in your control.
You’ve secured the humans. Now secure everything else.
Identity systems protect your people. But what about the pipelines pushing code? The AI agents taking action? The services calling each other?
Modern infrastructure runs on automation, but it’s still authenticated with secrets and excessive access.
Defakto brings true identity security to services, applications, jobs, machines, and AI. No secrets, no API keys, no standing privileges. Just short-lived, verified identities are issued and revoked on demand and tied to policy.
Legacy approach
- Long-lived secrets
- Overprivileged service accounts
- Vault sprawl & rotation overhead
- Unknown actors, blind access
- Technical debt grows over time
- Humans manage access manually
Defakto Platform
- Short-lived identity issued at runtime
- Accountless, no standing access
- No secrets to manage
- Real-time visibility & control
- Debt-free by design
- Fully automated, no human-in-loop
Real identity security for autonomous infrastructure
Every non-human actor gets a real, verifiable identity. Defakto embeds identity at the core, enabling secure automation without manual overhead.
Instant visibility & control
Enforce and audit in real time
Eradicate secrets
Eliminate hardcoded credentials at scale
Identity for non-humans
From workloads and CI/CD jobs to APIs, machines, and AI agents
Eliminate hidden risk
Surface and remove unmanaged access
Fits your stack
Works across cloud, legacy, and DevOps flows
Standards at the core. Confidence at scale.
Defakto is built on SPIFFE and other open protocols, the proven standards adopted by leading enterprises for non-human identity. We don’t just support standards, we help build and define them. That’s why Defakto offers:
- Seamless cloud, on-prem, and hybrid integration
- Interoperability with your existing stack
- Future-proof architecture without vendor lock-in
Why Defakto
“Working with Defakto has transformed how we approach non-human identity. It is rare to find a partner that not only understands the complexity of our infrastructure but consistently delivers solutions.”
Head of Security,
Fortune 100 Customer
“We reduced our credential management overhead by 80% while improving our security posture. Defakto solved problems we didn’t even know we had.”
CISO,
Retail Company
“The visibility alone was worth it, we discovered dozens of orphaned service accounts and overprivileged access we never knew existed.”
VP of Architecture,
Technology Company
Security that moves the business forward
Reduce risk
Cut exposure to static credentials across code, cloud, and services
Lower costs
Shrink vault sprawl, manual effort, and identity lifecycle overhead
Boost compliance
Meet audit requirements with real-time attribution and policy enforcement
Future-proof your automation
Secure AI and autonomous systems with standards-based identity
Accelerate innovation
Empower developers and improve security posture without tradeoffs
Built to fit your world, not disrupt it.
Deploy in your cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Defakto works where your workloads live.
Cloud platforms
AWS, Azure, GCP native integration with IAM and service meshes
Container & orchestration
Kubernetes, Docker, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI DevOps
DevOps tools
Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Legacy systems
On-premises Active Directory, LDAP, custom applications
Security stack
SIEM integration, policy engines, existing identity providers