Defakto provides a non‑human IAM platform that discovers automated workloads and issues short‑lived, SPIFFE‑based identities at runtime, automatically revoking them after use. The solution integrates with Kubernetes, CI/CD tools, and major cloud providers to enforce policy‑driven, least‑privilege access and offers a unified dashboard for real‑time governance, audit, and compliance reporting.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Enterprises rely on static secrets, long‑lived service accounts, and manual credential rotation to authenticate workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agents. This approach creates credential sprawl, over‑privileged access, and blind spots in visibility, especially across multi‑cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments.
Solution
Defakto delivers a Non‑Human Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform that discovers every non‑human actor, issues short‑lived, cryptographically verifiable identities at runtime, and enforces policy‑driven access controls. Built on the SPIFFE open standard, the platform replaces static keys with dynamic identities that are automatically revoked when a task completes. A unified control plane provides real‑time governance, audit trails, and compliance reporting across cloud, on‑prem, and edge workloads. By integrating with CI/CD tools, Kubernetes, service meshes, and major cloud providers, Defakto enables zero‑trust security for automated infrastructure without requiring code changes or manual credential management.
Target Audience
Primary customers are enterprise security, IAM, and DevOps teams that manage large fleets of workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agents across multi‑cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem infrastructures.
Features
- Runtime issuance of short‑lived identities for workloads, containers, CI/CD jobs, and AI agents, eliminating static secrets and vault rotation overhead.
- SPIFFE‑based trust fabric that provides mutual TLS authentication and attestation across AWS, Azure, GCP, on‑prem, and hybrid environments.
- Unified dashboard (Ledger) for continuous discovery, ownership assignment, and real‑time visibility of all non‑human identities.
- Policy engine that enforces least‑privilege access per identity, with automatic revocation when the context expires.
- Native integrations with Kubernetes, service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, and other DevOps tools via a language‑agnostic SDK.
- Comprehensive audit logging and compliance reporting (NIST, Zero Trust) stored in a tamper‑evident system of record.
- API‑first design for seamless embedding into existing security stacks, SIEMs, and identity providers without vendor lock‑in.