IBM Vault

Organizations face growing challenges managing and protecting sensitive credentials, passwords, API keys, certificates, and encryption keys across increasingly complex IT environments. Scattered secrets, hard-coded credentials, inconsistent access controls, and manual credential management create security vulnerabilities, increase the risk of unauthorized access, and make it difficult to maintain visibility and meet compliance requirements. As agencies adopt hybrid cloud, automation, and AI technologies, the number of machine identities and credentials continues to grow, expanding the potential attack surface and making secure, centralized secrets management increasingly critical. 

Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys, and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API. 

From perimeter security to identity-centric protection. Identity-based security moves beyond static perimeters and trusted networks to support dynamic infrastructure, non-human identities, and agentic AI. In environments with no clear boundary, security shifts from network location to verified identity, ensuring infrastructure and application services are protected based on who or what is accessing them.