Adfinis launches Secretz Enterprise, an enterprise subscription for OpenBao with sovereign-ready security, local capability, and long-term infrastructure stability.
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Adfinis, an international leader in open source IT solutions, today announced the local launch of Secretz Enterprise. This high-assurance secrets management subscription is specifically designed to meet the rigorous risk-management and compliance requirements of the APAC market.
As APAC organisations face heightening regulatory pressures – including updated Privacy Act reforms and critical infrastructure mandates – Secretz Enterprise provides a de-risked path to securing machine identities, digital keys, certificates, and other company secrets. Built around OpenBao, it prioritises operational predictability and infrastructure stability, moving away from the volatile "per-client" pricing models that often penalise business growth.
In a region where enterprise maturity is defined by long-term strategic planning, the "Success Tax" of proprietary licensing – where costs spike as the number of users and/or clients scales – has become a significant barrier to digital transformation. Secretz Enterprise addresses this with a flat-fee subscription model, where licensing costs do not increase in tandem with organisational growth. This approach allows technical and financial decision-makers to forecast security spend with 100% accuracy, regardless of how many users and/or clients are added to the environment.
Secretz Enterprise addresses this with a flat-fee subscription model, where licensing costs do not increase in tandem with organisational growth. This approach allows technical and financial decision-makers to forecast security spend with 100% accuracy, regardless of how many users and/or clients are added to the environment.
"For APAC organisations, security is no longer just a technical requirement; it is a pillar of business continuity," says Nicolas Christener, CEO at Adfinis. "By removing the licensing friction and focusing on a stable, upstream-first architecture, we are enabling local organisations to scale their security posture without the risk of budget blowouts or vendor lock-in."
Adfinis’s presence in the APAC market provides a unique bridge between global open source innovation and local enterprise requirements.
The reliability of Secretz Enterprise is anchored in an upstream-first philosophy, ensuring that Secretz Enterprise is a long-term, sovereign-ready asset rather than a fleeting proprietary licence. Adfinis is a core co-maintainer and member of the OpenBao Technical Steering Committee (TSC), and continually enhances OpenBao through bug fixes, security patches, and further improvements. Consequently, Secretz Enterprise – which is built on OpenBao – benefits from modern capabilities such as automated rotation, just-in-time (JIT) access, full auditability, and a unified API. These capabilities are what allow organizations to mitigate secrets sprawl, plaintext secrets, and other critical security risks with ease.
Secretz Enterprise complements Adfinis's existing value-add services that bring the technical robustness of OpenBao to the benefit of customers anywhere in the world. From tailored OpenBao platforms to fully managed services, Adfinis’s holistic suite of OpenBao-backed offerings enables organisations to focus on their core business while retaining complete data sovereignty. Secretz Enterprise extends these offerings to ensure that high-grade security is a sustainable, scalable standard for many – delivering the expertise, support, and long-term stability required to navigate a sovereign digital future.
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About Adfinis
Adfinis is a leading service provider of open source IT solutions, with established locations in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Egypt. For over 25 years, Adfinis has delivered robust and reliable solutions built on trustworthy open source technology.
In collaboration with industry leaders such as GitLab, Red Hat, and SUSE, Adfinis offers clients a tailored approach covering the entire IT lifecycle. From strategy to execution, Adfinis provides consulting and planning, engineering expertise, and 24/7 managed services to ensure seamless, reliable operations. Serving a worldwide clientele, Adfinis embodies a legacy of innovation and a profound dedication to enhancing the open source ecosystem.
About OpenBao
OpenBao is an open source, community-driven fork of Vault managed by the Linux Foundation. It is an identity-based secrets and encryption management system. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API encryption keys, passwords, and certificates. OpenBao provides encryption services that are gated by authentication and authorization methods. Using OpenBao’s UI, CLI, or HTTP API, access to secrets and other sensitive data can be securely stored and managed, tightly controlled (restricted), and auditable.