Adfinis and letsboot.ch launch a Secretz-certified learning path for OpenBao, empowering organizations to accelerate secrets management adoption and strengthen their cybersecurity posture.
Basel & Bern, Switzerland
Adfinis, the leading open source IT service provider behind Secretz Enterprise and co-maintainer of OpenBao™, and letsboot.ch, a premier Swiss training provider specializing in software and system engineering, announce a partnership to upskill organizations in operating and integrating OpenBao to secure their most critical digital assets.
As organizations rapidly adopt OpenBao – a community-governed Linux Foundation project – for sustainable secrets and key management, the need for practical, hands-on expertise has become paramount. However, rolling out and integrating secrets management across traditional, cloud native, and agentic AI workloads is demanding – especially with increasing cybersecurity pressure to mitigate secrets and agent sprawl, eliminate standing identities, and remain compliant with regulatory obligations such as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), NIS2, or approaching post-quantum cryptography (PQC) adoption deadlines.
By joining forces, Adfinis and letsboot.ch deliver comprehensive, vetted training courses for OpenBao – both virtually and in-person worldwide – designed to empower teams, organizations, and partners to successfully deploy, operate, and adopt OpenBao across enterprise and regulated environments:
“As OpenBao co-maintainers, we see engineering teams struggle most with turning upstream technology into production-ready deployments and driving internal adoption – especially under tight bandwidth and shifting priorities. Partnering with letsboot.ch allows us to bridge this gap by pairing top-tier secrets management training with official certification, giving teams the practical experience and recognized credentials needed to succeed.”
– Michael Hofer, Adfinis Chief Technology Officer and OpenBao TSC Chair
“Our 'by engineers for engineers' training approach focuses on real-world practice. Working closely with Adfinis ensures our labs and courses reflect actual enterprise setups and upstream innovation, giving engineers immediate, hands-on confidence with OpenBao.”
– Jonas Felix, letsboot.ch Co-Founder
Organizations ready to enhance their secrets and key management capabilities can register for upcoming OpenBao training cohorts, explore course schedules, and review certification pathways by visiting letsboot.ch/security or contacting adfinis.com.
For further information:
letsboot.ch
Barbara Felix [email protected] www.letsboot.ch
Adfinis AG
Communications Department [email protected] 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 Secretz Enterprise
Secretz Enterprise is the open, simple, and reliable solution for securing application secrets and machine identities – eliminating secrets sprawl and associated risks through automated rotation, JIT access, and full auditability via a unified API. The subscription provides 24/7 enterprise support, software assurance, and continuous development for OpenBao. By utilizing an unrestricted, predictable flat-fee pricing model, it eliminates the "Success Tax" of proprietary alternatives – where per-identity or per-client licensing forces teams into punitive "Architecture by License" workarounds – reducing annual spend by up to 50%. As an OpenBao co-maintainer and Chair of its Technical Steering Committee (TSC), Adfinis follows a strict "upstream-first" strategy, contributing all improvements directly back to the OpenBao project. Consequently, customers eliminate vendor lock-in and reclaim data sovereignty – whether deployed as a self-managed or tailored managed service. Teams retain the freedom to drop the subscription at any time with zero migrations and zero infrastructure changes to achieve truly sustainable secrets management.
About letsboot.ch
letsboot.ch is a Swiss training company for expert software and system engineering, with established locations in Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. By engineers for engineers: our experts work as engineers themselves and teach hands-on, with a dedicated lab environment per participant.
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.
OpenBao™ is a trademark of LF Projects, LLC. All rights reserved.