Implemented and Operated by Identity Security Specialists
Stand up, integrate, and run secrets management across CyberArk Conjur, HashiCorp Vault, and the major cloud vaults – without leaving your PAM and identity controls behind. Presidium has spent 18+ years governing privileged identity at enterprise scale. Now we bring that same discipline to your DevOps pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and machine identities.
Your control over them isn't.
Machine identities now outnumber human users by roughly 45 to 1 in the average enterprise. API tokens, certificates, service-account credentials, database passwords, and signing keys are spawned by every pipeline, every container, and every cloud workload – and most security teams cannot tell you where they live, who owns them, or when they last rotated.
That gap is what attackers are exploiting. The Snowflake-related breaches of 2024 alone exposed records from Ticketmaster, Santander, and AT&T, traced back to stolen service-account credentials with no MFA. Microsoft’s Midnight Blizzard incident pivoted through a legacy non-prod tenant and an over-privileged OAuth app. The pattern is consistent: the breach didn’t start with a clever exploit. It started with a credential that should never have been live.
For most enterprises, the day-to-day reality looks like this:
Buying a vault is the easy part. Operating it as part of a working identity security program is where most programs stall – and where Presidium comes in.
Whether you are beginning your journey, looking to expand your program, or struggling with a current implementation, we provide the expertise to move your security objectives forward with confidence.
Enterprise secrets management is the practice of centrally storing, protecting, distributing, rotating, and auditing the credentials that applications, services, scripts, and infrastructure use to authenticate to one another. Unlike password management – which protects credentials used by humans – secrets management protects the non-human identities (NHIs) that make modern software run: API keys, database connection strings, service-account tokens, TLS certificates, encryption keys, signing keys, and SSH credentials.
A mature enterprise secrets management program typically includes:
Done well, secrets management closes one of the most exploited gaps in enterprise security. Done in isolation from the rest of your identity program, it just creates one more silo to ignore.
Traditional secrets management was built for steady-state infrastructure. DevOps environments are anything but. Pipelines spin up and down on every commit. Containers live for minutes. Infrastructure-as-code provisions and tears down whole environments overnight. AI agents and serverless functions appear, authenticate, do work, and disappear before a human ever sees them.
That speed introduces three problems a generic vault deployment won’t solve on its own:
Secrets need to reach build agents, runners, container images, IaC executors, and runtime environments without ever landing in a Git repository, a build log, or a developer’s laptop. That requires brokered, just-in-time delivery – not config files.
Static secrets are a liability. Modern programs issue short-lived, scoped credentials for each workload, generated on demand and revoked automatically. This is where HashiCorp Vault’s database engines, AWS STS, and Conjur’s just-in-time issuance earn their keep – and where most rollouts fail without expert tuning.
Large language model agents and Model Context Protocol servers now hold long-lived tokens with broad scope. A successful prompt injection can exfiltrate them in seconds. The emerging best practice is short-lived, scoped, brokered credentials issued per agent run – and almost no enterprise has implemented it yet.
how we deliver
Every Presidium engagement follows a four-stage lifecycle that we have refined across 18+ years of enterprise PAM and IAM delivery. We don’t drop in, install a tool, and hand you the keys. We meet you where you are, design for where you need to go, and stay engaged for as long as you want us running it.
We begin with a structured discovery of your current state: where secrets live today, which workloads consume them, who owns them, how they rotate (or don’t), and how your existing PAM, IAM, and SIEM controls touch them. The output is a prioritized secrets-sprawl and NHI exposure report with quantified risk, mapped to your compliance obligations.
We define the target architecture together. Tool selection is driven by your environment, not our preference: cloud mix, regulatory regime, performance requirements, identity-provider stack, and existing CyberArk or SailPoint investment. We produce reference architectures, policy models, rotation strategies, integration designs with your IAM/PAM, and an application-onboarding playbook your platform team can run with.
We deliver in phased waves. Vault platform stand-up first, then high-priority workloads (typically CI/CD and customer-facing apps), then progressive onboarding of the long tail. Throughout, we deliver runbooks, training, integration test suites, and the audit evidence your compliance team needs from day one.
This is what separates a project from a program. Presidium’s managed services keep your secrets infrastructure healthy long after go-live – 24×7 monitoring, rotation drills, incident response, version upgrades, HA/DR testing, audit support, and quarterly governance reviews. You can take it fully managed, co-managed, or on-demand.
We are tool-agnostic by design and certified specialists by practice. Most enterprises end up running two or three of the platforms below – by accident, through cloud strategy, or through M&A. We help you select what’s right, deploy it well, and govern multiple stores as a single program.
Best for organizations already invested in CyberArk PAM, regulated industries, and environments where unified privileged-and-secrets governance matters. Strong policy model, deep audit, native CyberArk Vault integration. Available self-hosted or as SaaS.
(OSS, Enterprise, HCP) Best for multi-cloud estates, dynamic-secrets-heavy programs, and Kubernetes-native platforms. Industry-leading dynamic secret engines for databases, cloud IAM, PKI, and SSH. We deliver self-hosted, hybrid, and HCP Vault Dedicated patterns.
Best for AWS-centric teams that need fast, native integration with Lambda, ECS, EKS, and RDS. Strong cost profile and zero infrastructure overhead. We help you decide what belongs in Secrets Manager, what belongs in Parameter Store, and what should escalate to a centralized vault.
Best for Microsoft-centric estates and regulated workloads using HSM-backed keys. We design Key Vault topologies, RBAC, and integration with Entra ID, App Service, and AKS.
Best for GCP-only environments and Kubernetes-via-GKE workloads. Lightweight, well-integrated, suitable as the cloud-native layer in a multi-vault strategy.
SaaS-first platforms for fast-moving teams who want managed-secrets infrastructure without operating it. We help evaluate their fit against enterprise compliance, residency, and integration requirements before you commit.
Every secrets management program looks slightly different. These are the scenarios where our identity-led approach changes the outcome.
You have AWS, Azure, and GCP secrets stores running in parallel – each with its own policy, audit, and rotation behavior. We unify governance, build a reconciliation layer, and give you one operating model.
On-prem datacenters, mainframes, legacy applications, and modern cloud workloads coexisting. We design vault topologies that bridge them – typically anchored on CyberArk Conjur or HashiCorp Vault Enterprise.
Native injection patterns for EKS, AKS, GKE, and OpenShift. Workload identity, sidecar agents, CSI drivers, and secret-less authentication wherever the platform supports it.
Removing static secrets from GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and CircleCI. Brokered credential issuance scoped to each pipeline run.
Financial services, healthcare, public sector, and critical infrastructure. Audit-ready deployments mapped to PCI DSS 4.0, HIPAA, FedRAMP Rev 5, DORA, NIS2, and ISO 27001.
Two enterprises merge, each with its own vault, PAM, and identity stack. We rationalize, migrate, and deduplicate without breaking running services.
Built for the auditors as well as the engineers.
| Control area | Frameworks addressed |
|---|---|
| Encryption of credentials at rest and in transit | SOC 2 (CC6.1), PCI DSS 4.0 (3.5, 8.3), HIPAA (164.312), FedRAMP Rev 5 (SC-12, SC-13, SC-28) |
| Privileged credential rotation and unique credentials | PCI DSS 4.0 (8.3.10), NIST 800-53 (IA-5), DORA (Art. 9) |
| Removal of hardcoded credentials | PCI DSS 4.0 (6.2.4), OWASP ASVS (V2.10) |
| Audit logging of credential access | SOC 2 (CC7.2), PCI DSS 4.0 (10.2), HIPAA (164.312(b)) |
| Identity-based access control for secrets | NIS2 (Art. 21), ISO 27001 (A.5.15, A.8.2), FedRAMP (AC-2, AC-3) |
| Lifecycle governance for non-human identities | ISO 27001 (A.5.16), NIS2 (Art. 21), DORA (Art. 9) |
Because Presidium also runs your CyberArk PAM and SailPoint IAM environments, we can connect privileged session controls, identity governance, and secrets controls into a single audit story – instead of three disjointed ones. That alone cuts evidence-gathering time at audit by weeks.
why us?
Secrets management is an extension of identity, not an isolated tool category. We’ve spent 18+ years building privileged-access and identity programs for enterprises in 11 industries. That pedigree shows up in every design we ship.
We are accredited specialists across CyberArk, SailPoint, HashiCorp, AWS, Microsoft, and Google. We pick what’s right for your environment – not what carries the highest commission.
Architecture, design, implementation, testing, training, documentation, phased deployment, and operational support. From first whiteboard to fifth-year audit.
Our PAM environments include deployments with 60+ production servers and 10,000+ end users. We bring that same operational discipline to secrets.
When the same firm operates all three, the integration work writes itself – and the audit story becomes one story instead of three.
San Francisco and Vancouver offices. No offshore-only handoffs. Senior consultants on every engagement.
Whether you’re an engineering leader trying to remove static secrets from your pipelines or a security executive looking to bring machine identity under governance, we can help you take the next concrete step.
FAQ
Secrets management is the centralized practice of storing, protecting, distributing, rotating, and auditing the credentials that applications and infrastructure use to authenticate to one another – API keys, database passwords, certificates, tokens, encryption keys, and SSH credentials. It protects non-human identities, where password management protects humans.
Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls how human administrators access sensitive systems – typically through session brokering, credential vaulting, and just-in-time access. Secrets management controls how applications, services, and machines authenticate to one another. Mature programs run both, governed under a single identity strategy. CyberArk’s portfolio explicitly bridges the two; Presidium designs and operates that bridge for enterprises.
It depends on your estate. AWS Secrets Manager is the right answer for workloads that live entirely inside AWS and need lightweight, native integration. HashiCorp Vault is the right answer for multi-cloud, hybrid, or on-prem environments, for dynamic-secret-heavy programs, and for organizations that want a single control plane across clouds. Many enterprises run both – AWS Secrets Manager as a cloud-native layer, Vault as the central governance layer. We help you draw that line correctly.
Vault has an open-source community edition that is free to use. Vault Enterprise and HCP Vault Dedicated are commercial offerings that add features such as namespaces, performance replication, HSM integration, FIPS 140-2 compliance, and managed operations. Most enterprises operating Vault at scale eventually move to Enterprise or HCP for the operational and compliance features.
The right pattern is brokered, just-in-time delivery: the pipeline authenticates to a central vault using its workload identity, the vault issues a short-lived credential scoped to the job, the credential is consumed at runtime, and it expires automatically. Static secrets stored in pipeline configuration are eliminated. The wrong pattern is storing long-lived secrets in CI/CD environment variables – common, convenient, and one of the largest sources of breach exposure.
Often, yes. Traditional CyberArk PAM was built around human privileged access. Modern environments add millions of machine identities – pipelines, containers, microservices, AI agents – that need a credential model PAM alone wasn’t designed for. CyberArk’s Conjur (Secrets Manager) is purpose-built for this layer, and it integrates natively with the PAM vault you already operate. Presidium specializes in this exact extension.
Presidium engagements typically follow a 12-to-20-week initial timeline: 2-to-4 weeks of discovery and design, 6-to-10 weeks of platform stand-up and high-priority application onboarding, and ongoing waves for the long tail of applications. Managed services begin at or before go-live. Larger or more regulated environments scale up from there.
Presidium’s managed service covers 24×7 platform monitoring, secret rotation drills, incident response, version upgrades and patching, HA/DR validation, new-application onboarding, SIEM integration, and audit-evidence generation, along with quarterly governance reviews. Available co-managed, fully managed, or on-demand. The goal is to keep your program from drifting out of compliance after the project team moves on.
The emerging best practice is to issue short-lived, scoped, brokered credentials per agent run – not long-lived static tokens that prompt injection can exfiltrate. We design AI-credential patterns using workload identity, just-in-time issuance, and tight scoping policies, integrated with your existing vault and identity provider. This is one of the fastest-moving areas of secrets management in 2026, and one where most enterprises currently have no policy at all.