Overview

CyberArk Workload Identity Manager (formerly known as Venafi Firefly) is the industry’s first workload identity issuer featuring built-in trust validation and authentication. Lightweight and ephemeral, CyberArk Workload Identity Manager goes beyond conventional PKI systems, bridging the gap between platform efficiency and security compliance. By working in tandem with other machine identity solutions, Workload Identity Manager combines centralized governance with decentralized identity issuance, empowering your team to securely validate and authenticate every workload identity, in every environment.

Features

• Just-in-Time Workload Identity Issuance and Authentication: Deploy authenticated workload identities whenever and wherever they’re needed, even in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• SPIFFE Support: Provides robust governance and trust at the velocity developers demand, supporting SPIFFE standards.
• Instant Compliance: Enables InfoSec to give platform teams a workload identity issuer with built-in trust validation.
• Easily Distributed: Assigns and distributes trust anchors to use in development workflows, aligning with the exact needs of platform teams.
• Replace Rogue CAs: Removes the risk of unvalidated CAs, replacing them with trusted workload identity issuers to help meet zero-trust security requirements.
• Crypto-Agile: Provides localized issuance to meet workload identity needs for high-velocity cloud native development.
• Cloud-Agnostic: Delivers workload identity governance for multi-cloud environments, offering SPIFFE support to create an enterprise-wide trust root system.
• Solves the Secret Zero: Eliminates the need for persistent, long-term secrets in certificates, offering more efficient lifecycle management using short-lived workload identities.

Benefits

• Streamlined Workload Security: Simplifies and streamlines the authentication of workloads across various platforms, whether it’s public clouds, Kubernetes (including Istio), or dedicated infrastructures.
• Unified Multi-Cloud Workload Identity Authentication: Ensures seamless authentication across different environments through distributed trust anchors.
• Enhanced Development Speed: Reduces complexity and increases development speed, allowing teams to refactor legacy applications to be cloud native.
• Visibility and Policy Control: Provides security teams with visibility and policy control over machine identities, combining the best of both worlds—speed and security.
• Efficient Lifecycle Management: Offers efficient lifecycle management using short-lived workload identities, eliminating the need for persistent, long-term secrets.