Short-lived identity for every workload
Services, containers, and pipelines authenticate the same way your people do — with hardware-rooted, automatically renewed identities instead of static API keys sitting in config files and repos.
The static-key problem
Most systems still authenticate with long-lived API keys and shared secrets. They get committed to repositories, baked into container images, pasted into CI logs, and copied between environments — and they rarely expire. A single leaked key can stay valid for months, giving an attacker a quiet, persistent door into your infrastructure that no one notices.
Issue — identity is born on the machine
When a workload starts, it receives its own cryptographic identity, attested by the host hardware. No secrets are shipped, copied, or pasted.
Authenticate — every call is signed
Each service-to-service request is signed by the workload identity and verified by the receiver. Trust is mutual and checked on every connection.
Expire — credentials die in minutes
Identities are valid for minutes, not years. A leaked credential is stale before an attacker can use it.
Renew — automatically, with zero ops
Rotation is built in. Workloads renew themselves continuously; a compromised or drifted workload simply fails renewal and loses access.
How short is “short-lived”?
Minutes by default, and fully configurable. The window is short enough that an intercepted credential is stale before it can be reused.
What happens to a compromised workload?
It fails its next renewal and silently loses its identity — no manual revocation, no rotation runbook, no leftover access.
How is this different from a secrets manager?
A vault still hands out long-lived secrets that you are responsible for rotating. CyberCyko issues ephemeral identities that rotate themselves and never persist.
Does it run across clouds and on-prem?
Yes. Hardware-attested identity works wherever the workload runs, so the same model spans AWS, your data center, and the edge.
Attackers hunt repos and CI logs for long-lived keys. Give them nothing to find: credentials that expire in minutes and renew themselves.