Secure Every
Identity.
Not Just Humans.
Your enterprise has 10–45 non-human identities for every employee — service accounts, AI agents, API tokens, workloads, and pipelines. Most are ungoverned, over-privileged, and never rotated. SPS deploys HashiCorp Vault to fix that — backed by 25+ years of enterprise identity expertise.
Your biggest attack surface isn't your users.
Hardcoded API keys in source code. Database passwords in config files. Shared service account credentials passed by email. Static secrets that were created in 2019 and never rotated — because nobody knows who owns them or what breaks if you change them.
Your organization is deploying AI agents, copilots, and autonomous pipelines — each one making API calls, accessing data, and executing actions. None of them have proper identities. None are audited. When something goes wrong, you can't trace it back. When one gets compromised, it can pivot everywhere.
SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and NIST 800-207 all require secrets management and privileged access control for machine accounts. Auditors are asking. Most organizations have spreadsheets and prayers. That gap is growing as AI deployments accelerate faster than governance can follow.
Every Machine, Agent & Workload
Is an Identity That Needs Governing.
Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are the digital credentials, tokens, and principals used by software systems rather than people. As enterprises move to cloud-native architectures and deploy AI agents at scale, NHIs have exploded in volume — and most security programs haven't kept pace. Vault was built for exactly this problem.
Agentic AI Identities
LLM-powered agents, autonomous workflows, AI copilots, and orchestration pipelines that independently make API calls, access data, and execute multi-step tasks — often with broad permissions and zero governance.
Service Accounts & Workloads
Application service accounts, CI/CD runners, container workloads, microservices, and serverless functions that authenticate to backend systems with long-lived static credentials.
API Keys, Tokens & Secrets
OAuth tokens, API keys, JWTs, database passwords, and encryption keys scattered across cloud environments, SaaS platforms, codebases, and developer machines.
Cloud & Infrastructure Roles
AWS IAM roles, Azure Managed Identities, GCP Service Accounts, and IaC execution contexts that span multi-cloud environments, each with their own permission models and audit requirements.
Certificates & PKI
TLS certificates, code-signing certificates, client certificates, and internal CA hierarchies that expire silently, cascade failures across services, and are often managed by no single team.
Third-Party & Integration Identities
Vendor integrations, SaaS connectors, partner API credentials, and webhook secrets that cross organizational boundaries — with shared secrets that can't be rotated without coordinating with external teams.
What Vault Actually Does
Vault is the industry-standard platform for secrets management, machine identity, and dynamic credentials. It doesn't just store secrets — it eliminates static secrets entirely, replacing them with short-lived, just-in-time credentials that machines and AI agents get on demand and that expire automatically.
Dynamic Secrets — Vault's Core Superpower
Instead of distributing static credentials that persist forever, Vault generates unique, short-lived credentials on demand — for databases, cloud platforms, SSH access, PKI certificates, and more. When the TTL expires, the credential is automatically revoked. No rotation policies needed. No credential sprawl. No "who owns this key?" conversations.
Database Dynamic Secrets
Vault creates unique DB credentials per request, per workload. Automatically revoked after use. Zero standing access to production databases.
Cloud Dynamic Credentials
AWS, Azure, GCP credentials generated just-in-time for workloads and AI agents. Scoped, short-lived, automatically expired.
Dynamic PKI & Certificates
Issue certificates on demand with configurable TTLs. Automated renewal. No more calendar reminders for cert expiry.
Agentic AI Identity Control
Give every AI agent, LLM pipeline, and autonomous workflow a verified, scoped, auditable identity — with credentials that expire and permissions you control.
- Workload Identity for AI agents via JWT/OIDC
- Per-agent secret scoping with policy-as-code
- Full audit trail of every agent secret access
- Automatic revocation when agents are decommissioned
Zero-Touch Secret Rotation
Automated rotation for every static secret that can't yet be made dynamic — database passwords, API keys, service account credentials, SSH keys.
- Policy-driven rotation schedules per secret class
- Zero application downtime during rotation
- Lease-based access with automatic expiry
- Break-glass emergency rotation in seconds
Multi-Cloud Secrets Federation
One Vault deployment governs secrets across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, and hybrid — unified policy, unified audit, one control plane.
- AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault sync
- Kubernetes auth for pod-level identity
- Terraform + Pulumi native integration
- GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD support
Audit-Ready Compliance
Every secret access, every token issuance, every revocation — cryptographically signed and immutably logged for SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and NIST 800-207.
- Tamper-evident audit device (syslog/file)
- Sentinel policy enforcement at secret access
- Control Plane RBAC with dual approval workflows
- FIPS 140-2 compliance mode for regulated industries
Encryption as a Service
Vault's Transit secrets engine acts as an encryption API — applications encrypt/decrypt data without ever handling keys, and key rotation happens transparently.
- AES-256-GCM, RSA, ECDSA, Ed25519 support
- Convergent encryption for searchable data
- Key versioning with automatic re-wrap
- HSM integration for key custodianship
Our HashiCorp Vault
& NHI Services
SPS brings the same specialist depth to Vault and NHI governance that we've brought to IBM IAM for 25 years. We don't just install Vault — we architect the entire non-human identity program: discovery, governance, automation, and ongoing operations. Here's exactly what we do.
The first problem is you don't know what you have. SPS runs a comprehensive NHI discovery across your environment — finding every service account, API key, token, certificate, and AI agent identity — then builds the governance program to manage them at scale. This is where every mature security program starts.
Design, deploy, and configure Vault Enterprise for high availability, DR replication, and production-grade resilience. Integrated with your existing IAM, cloud, and CI/CD stack.
Vault Deployment arrow_forwardDesign and enforce identity controls for your AI agents — every LLM pipeline, copilot, and autonomous workflow gets a verifiable identity, scoped permissions, and a full audit trail.
AI Identity Services arrow_forwardCombine IBM Verify's human identity governance with Vault's machine identity control — one unified access policy, one audit trail, one identity posture across every identity type.
Unified IAM Design arrow_forwardFind every hardcoded secret, orphaned API key, and static password across your codebase, cloud, and CI/CD. Migrate them into Vault with zero-downtime application transitions.
Secrets Migration arrow_forward24/7 management of your Vault deployment — seal status, lease management, policy governance, version upgrades, and NHI lifecycle operations handled by the SPS team.
Managed Services arrow_forwardThe IAM Firm. Not an IAM Practice.
Anyone can install Vault. SPS brings 25+ years of enterprise identity governance — the context, the patterns, and the judgment to make Vault work at enterprise scale, in production, under compliance pressure.
Identity-First, Not Tool-First
We're not a Vault reseller who learned IAM. We're an IAM firm that knows Vault deeply. The difference matters when you're designing governance programs, not just deploying software. We bring identity program architecture that most organizations have never seen — built on 25 years of enterprise IAM delivery.
IBM Verify + Vault Together — Uniquely SPS
No other firm can offer IBM Gold Partner-grade IBM Verify delivery alongside enterprise Vault deployment. If you already run IBM Verify — or plan to — SPS is the only choice that gives you a single team governing both human and non-human identity with unified policy and one throat to grab.
Agentic AI Is Our Focus, Not a Footnote
Every major IAM vendor is bolting "AI identity" onto an existing brochure. SPS has built an actual Agentic AI Identity Framework — governing LLM agents, autonomous pipelines, and AI copilots with the same rigor we've applied to human identities for decades.
Regulated Industry Track Record
Federal Reserve. U.S. Air Force. Freddie Mac. Commonwealth of Virginia. NASA. Askari Bank. These aren't logos — they're proof that SPS delivers under the compliance and security pressure that others can't handle. Vault needs that same rigor. We bring it.
We Are the Partner Other Partners Call
When other IBM Business Partners face IAM challenges beyond their expertise, they call SPS. The same dynamic plays out in the NHI space — we're the specialist firm that handles what generalist integrators can't. If you want the specialist, come directly to the source.
Managed Operations Means We Stay Accountable
We don't deploy and disappear. SPS offers managed Vault operations — which means we architect things to be maintainable and we own the outcome. When our team manages your Vault environment long-term, we have every incentive to deploy it right the first time.
NHI Program Design, Not Just Tooling
Vault is a tool. An NHI program is a capability. SPS builds the full program: discovery methodology, risk classification framework, ownership accountability model, lifecycle policies, and the technology layer on top of it. Most organizations have the tool. SPS gives you the program.
Proven, Published, Verifiable
Our work at Asplundh (37,000 users, zero downtime), Askari Bank (featured on IBM.com), and the Commonwealth of Virginia (80%+ SEC 530 compliance in under a year) isn't just a claim — it's on record. Ask us for the details. The proof is always public.
IBM Verify + HashiCorp Vault:
Complete Identity Coverage.
Human identity governance and non-human identity governance are different disciplines — but they share policy, audit requirements, and lifecycle management. SPS is uniquely positioned to deliver both from a single practice with a single team. That matters when your CISO wants one unified security posture, not two separate tools with separate teams and no shared context.
Governance · ISIM/ISAM
Agents · Workloads
Unified Policy Management
Human and machine access policies authored, reviewed, and enforced from a single governance layer — no policy drift between systems.
Single Audit Trail
Every access event — human login, agent secret request, workload credential issuance — in one correlated audit log for compliance and SOC reporting.
One Team, One Throat
SPS manages both platforms under a single engagement. No finger-pointing between vendors when something goes wrong across identity types.
From Assessment to Production in Four Steps
NHI Discovery Assessment
A focused 2–3 week engagement to inventory every non-human identity in your environment, score them by risk, and map the gaps between your current state and a governed program.
Architecture & Design
Vault architecture design tailored to your cloud footprint, compliance requirements, and existing IAM stack. HA topology, DR strategy, auth methods, and secrets engine selection.
Deployment & Integration
Production deployment of Vault Enterprise, secrets migration from existing stores, integration with CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, IBM Verify, and AI agent frameworks.
Operate & Govern
Ongoing managed operations, policy governance, quarterly NHI access reviews, Vault upgrades, and incident response — or full knowledge transfer for teams who want to own it themselves.
Your machines need
identity governance too.
Book a free 30-minute NHI Assessment call with an SPS architect. We'll walk through your environment, identify the highest-risk gaps in your non-human identity posture, and outline what a Vault program would look like for your organization. No pitch — just expert analysis.