# Defakto Security

> Defakto Security, formerly SPIRL, provides enterprise non-human identity and access management for workloads, services, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agents. Its SPIFFE-based platform combines discovery and governance with short-lived identity issuance, scoped access, and secretless workflows across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Founders:** Danny Oliveri (Co-founder and CEO), Eli Nesterov (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Console, Ledger, Mint, Ship, Trim
- **Notable:** Announced a USD 30.75 million Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital on October 21, 2025., Reported production use by Global 2000 enterprises., Announced inclusion in Gartner’s 2025 Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security report.

## Products & services

- **Console** — Shared control plane for managing, monitoring, and enforcing non-human identity policy.
- **Ledger** — Discovers non-human identities and secrets, assigns ownership, and supports governance and risk assessment.
- **Mint** — Issues short-lived cryptographically verifiable workload identities after runtime verification.
- **Ship** — Replaces stored CI/CD credentials with identities issued for builds, jobs, and deployments.
- **Trim** — Detects excessive permissions and supports least-privilege access for non-human identities.
- **Mind** — Extends dynamic identity and scoped access policies to AI agents and LLM workloads.

## Achievements

- Announced a USD 30.75 million Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital on October 21, 2025.
- Reported production use by Global 2000 enterprises.
- Announced inclusion in Gartner’s 2025 Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security report.
- Reported six 2026 awards across Cyber Defense Magazine, Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, and Globee Cybersecurity Awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Release support documentation lists trust domain server version 0.39.0 released August 28, 2026, with support through February 28, 2028.
- **2026-06** — Pieter Kasselman discussed the OAuth SPIFFE Client Authentication draft and a joint Identiverse session with Cisco.
- **2026-05** — Defakto published its response to workload identity federation for AI platforms and described further work on delegated context and dynamic authorization.
- **2026-05** — Company announced six cybersecurity award recognitions.

## Links

- Website: https://www.defakto.security/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/defaktosecurity
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/defaktosecurity
- GitHub: https://github.com/defakto-security
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/defakto_security/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DefaktoSecurity

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