The new OpenBao-based subscription offers predictable, flat-fee secrets management and 24/7 enterprise support with a commitment to upstream-first innovation.
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Adfinis, a leading international IT service provider, globally launches Secretz Enterprise: a modern solution for securing organizational secrets – including passwords, digital keys, and certificates – that bolsters security while reducing growth-based licensing costs. Built on the OpenBao foundation, Secretz Enterprise is rooted in the principles of openness, simplicity, and reliability, offering a flat-fee subscription model, 24/7 enterprise support, and ongoing software assurance. It plays a critical role in protecting the application secrets and machine identities that are essential for an organization’s day-to-day operations, across any line of business or industry. This new approach to secrets management ensures that customers benefit from enhanced cybersecurity without the “Success Tax” of proprietary models – licensing costs do not increase in tandem with organizational growth.
Secretz Enterprise provides a path for organizations to scale their security without scaling their costs. It is built on an open source-first approach and uses an unrestricted, predictable pricing model. This resolves one of the biggest challenges that technical decision-makers face: As their organizational infrastructure grows, proprietary security solutions penalize that growth – a so-called “Success Tax”, where charging per “identity” or “client” forces teams into “Architecture by License” workarounds, resulting in infrastructure designed to fit a contract rather than their actual security requirements. Secretz Enterprise removes these barriers and allows organizations to focus on securing infrastructure rather than counting identities, reducing annual secrets management spend by up to 50% compared to proprietary alternatives.
The mission behind Secretz Enterprise is to make sustainable secrets management accessible to everyone. While high-security industries have long made data protection a priority, organizations across all sectors – from finance, utilities, and telecommunications to pharma and government – rely on secrets management to secure their most precious assets. Switching to Secretz Enterprise requires no migration and no infrastructure changes to existing platforms; customers can adopt the subscription immediately and drop it at any time without impacting their running environments. There is no lock-in, no re-platforming, and no hidden dependencies. As a champion of vendor-independent solutions, Adfinis is committed to ensuring the uninterrupted availability of critical systems worldwide. With Secretz Enterprise, Adfinis empowers organizations in both the private and public sectors to secure their infrastructure and satisfy the most stringent security requirements, without surrendering control to a single provider.
“By removing the ‘Success Tax’ and sticking to an upstream-first philosophy, we are finally making sustainable secrets management for everyone a reality – allowing organizations to scale their security posture without scaling their costs.”
– Michael Hofer, Chief Technology Officer, Adfinis
The long-term quality and reliability of Secretz Enterprise is assured through an “upstream first” commitment: Every enhancement and fix is contributed directly back to the OpenBao project. 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 organizations 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.
Contact for further information:
Michael Hofer
Adfinis Chief Technology Officer and Product Manager “Secrets Management”
[email protected]
+41 31 550 31 11
www.adfinis.com
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 that protects sensitive assets, 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.