CipherTrust Secrets Management
CipherTrust Secrets Management (CSM), powered by Akeyless Vault, protects and automates access to secrets used by DevOps tools and cloud workloads.
What CipherTrust Secrets Management is
CipherTrust Secrets Management (CSM), powered by Akeyless Vault, protects and automates access to secrets used by DevOps tools and cloud workloads. It centrally manages secrets, credentials, certificates, API keys, and tokens, with automation for creating, storing, rotating, and removing them. Listed uses include credential rotation, secret sharing, just-in-time generation and management, and logs of secret use for auditing and compliance. Thales says the service works across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, multiple tenants, on-premises deployments, and legacy systems. Named integrations include GitHub, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, with more available. CipherTrust Manager users can access CSM from a dashboard tile with the same credentials. CSM can be used independently or with CipherTrust Manager, but requires a separate license purchase from CipherTrust Manager. A free 90-day trial is available; pricing is otherwise on request. Listed authentication standards are FIDO2.1, U2F, and WebAuthn, and NFC is supported. The product is listed for web and self-hosted platforms, with cloud as its deployment model.
Good
- Automates secret creation, rotation, and removal
- Supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Named integrations include GitHub, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- Free 90-day trial
- Provides logs of secret use for auditing and compliance
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request
- No free plan beyond the 90-day trial
- Requires a separate license from CipherTrust Manager
Who it suits
CSM suits DevOps and security teams managing credentials, API keys, certificates, and other secrets across cloud, hybrid, on-premises, or legacy environments. It may also fit teams that need rotation automation and audit logs for secret use.
Verdict
CSM combines centralized secret management with lifecycle automation and integrations for DevOps environments. Factor in the separate licensing requirement and request pricing from Thales before selecting it.
Plans and prices
From CipherTrust Secrets Management's own pricing page, checked 3 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| 90-Day Free Trial | Free | Trial duration: 90 days · 90 days |
The facts
Each one read from CipherTrust Secrets Management's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- CipherTrust Manager access
- CSM is accessible through a tile in the CipherTrust Manager dashboard using the same credentials as CipherTrust Manager.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Deployment environments
- Thales says CSM works across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, multi-tenants, on-premises, and legacy systems.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Named third-party integrations include GitHub, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, with more available.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- CSM requires a separate license purchase from CipherTrust Manager and can be used independently or with a CipherTrust Manager license.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Lifecycle automation
- It automates creating, storing, rotating, and removing secrets.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Management
- The product provides centralized management for all secret types and is described as easy to use for DevSecOps.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- CipherTrust Secrets Management, powered by Akeyless Vault, protects and automates access to secrets across DevOps tools and cloud workloads.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Secret types
- The product covers secrets, credentials, certificates, API keys, and tokens.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Support
- The product page invites customers to contact a Data Security Specialist for questions about CSM.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Use cases
- Listed use cases include secrets storage, automated credential rotation, secrets sharing, just-in-time secret generation and management, and logs of secret use for auditing and compliance.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2000checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Meudon, Francechecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial
- Thales offers a free 90-day trial of CipherTrust Secrets Management powered by Akeyless.checked 3 Oct 2026
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