Akeyless, a leading provider of unified secrets and machine identity management solutions, has announced the launch of NHI Federation, a comprehensive Single Sign-On (SSO) solution for machines. As organizations increasingly operate workloads across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, security and platform teams face mounting challenges in ensuring secure and seamless access across these diverse infrastructures. The Akeyless Non-Human Identity (NHI) Federation solution addresses this complexity with a unified SaaS-based platform that enables secure authentication and access control for machines across heterogeneous environments.

Built on Akeyless’s patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC™), the solution adopts a Zero-Knowledge architecture, ensuring that sensitive data remains fully encrypted and inaccessible to any third party, including Akeyless itself. NHI Federation allows organizations to securely authenticate and authorize machine identities—digital credentials assigned to workloads, containers, microservices, and applications—across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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With the rapid scaling of cloud-native and AI-driven infrastructures, the number of machines—non-human actors such as applications, services, and automated tools—continues to rise exponentially. Each machine requires a distinct identity to securely access resources and communicate with other systems. Without centralized management, these identities often depend on static secrets dispersed across environments, leading to credential sprawl, operational inefficiencies, and increased security risks.

Currently, machine identities account for over 40% of all enterprise identities. When unmanaged, they can expose organizations to service disruptions, lateral movement by attackers, and compliance violations. A consistent Zero Trust approach is essential for managing and securing machine-to-machine communications across environments.

Akeyless NHI Federation tackles this challenge by replacing static credentials with ephemeral, just-in-time tokens issued through federated authentication. The platform integrates seamlessly with major cloud identity providers—including AWS IAM, Azure Entra ID, and Google Workload Identity Federation—as well as Kubernetes service accounts and on-premises identity systems. This ensures continuous authentication and authorization of every machine identity, aligned with Zero Trust security principles.

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“There’s growing recognition that managing machines alone isn’t enough—we must manage their identities as rigorously as we do human identities,” said Oded Hareven, CEO and Co-founder of Akeyless. “NHI Federation delivers what the market has long required: SSO for machines that functions across all environments, eliminating reliance on long-lived secrets. This is a fundamental shift in securing modern infrastructure.”

“Organizations today rely on multiple identity providers,” said Refael Angel, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Akeyless. “Our solution consolidates these diverse systems into a single control plane for machine identity management, reducing operational complexity while ensuring consistent access policies across all workloads.”

NHI Federation is powered by Akeyless’s patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography, eliminating any single point of failure. It supports industry standards such as SPIFFE/SPIRE, integrates seamlessly with the Akeyless Gateway, and provides detailed audit trails for every machine identity interaction to meet compliance and forensic investigation needs. When combined with Akeyless’s dynamic secrets generation and automatic rotation features, NHI Federation offers comprehensive Identity and Access Management (IAM) for machines from a single unified platform.

The NHI Federation solution is now available to all Akeyless enterprise customers. It deploys via the existing Akeyless Gateway without requiring any changes to cloud configurations or workload code.

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Source: prnewswire