Solutions
Cofide replaces the credentials your workloads and AI agents rely on today — API keys, service account tokens, long-lived secrets — with short-lived, cryptographically verified identity, built on open standards.
Secrets Modernisation
Discover the risk, then remove it workload by workload — no rip-and-replace.
The problem
Most security teams already agree they should move off static secrets — the risk only compounds as more applications ship. The hard part is knowing where to start: which workloads carry the most exposure, and how to fix that without disrupting anything that's already working.
How Cofide solves it
Cofide Connect discovers your workloads and builds a live map of how they talk to each other, surfacing exactly where static credentials and long-lived secrets are still doing the work.
From there, onboard workloads one at a time: SDK, sidecar, or a direct service mesh integration. Your secrets manager, CI/CD and PKI stay exactly where they are — Cofide sits alongside them until you're ready to retire each one.
For anything that can't speak SPIFFE at all — a legacy internal API, a SaaS that only takes OAuth bearer tokens — Credex bridges it. A SPIFFE-attested workload in Cofide exchanges its identity for a scoped OAuth token, and the legacy service authenticates it like any other OAuth client. It never has to learn that SPIFFE exists.
What changes
- A clear, live view of exactly where secret risk sits.
- Workloads onboard incrementally, at each team's own pace, alongside your existing tooling.
- Legacy and OAuth-only services are reachable securely from day one — no workload-side secrets, no changes on the legacy side.
- Initial evaluation typically takes a couple of weeks, expanding as confidence builds.
Verified Workload Identity
Short-lived, cryptographically attested — nothing long-lived left to steal.
The problem
Every service account, API key, and static token your workloads carry is a standing liability: it doesn't expire on its own, it's rarely rotated on schedule, and once it leaks — in a log, a repo, a container image — it's valid until someone notices. Non-human identities now significantly outnumber human ones, and most of them are secured this way.
How Cofide solves it
Cofide Connect issues each workload its own cryptographic identity at runtime, verified through attestation rather than a stored secret. Workloads prove what they are — verified against the node, cluster, and infrastructure they're running on — instead of presenting what they know. Credentials are short-lived by default and reissued automatically — no manual rotation, no long-lived material for an attacker to find.
What changes
- No more vaults, rotation schedules, or shared secrets to manage for service-to-service auth.
- Compromised credentials expire in minutes, not months — the blast radius of a leak shrinks to almost nothing.
- Every credential is scoped and attested, so you can prove why a workload was trusted, not just that it was.
cross-cloud federation
One control plane, one trust model, every cluster and cloud you run.
The problem
Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure means workload identity is usually solved differently in every environment — one approach on AWS, another on GCP, and yet another on-premises, each with its own trust model and its own blind spots. Security and platform teams end up with fragmented policy and no single view of who's trusted to talk to whom.
How Cofide solves it
Cofide Connect is built on open standards — SPIFFE, SPIRE, OAuth, and OIDC — so identity is portable by design rather than tied to any one cloud's IAM. You define trust zones per cluster or environment, then federate trust between them explicitly and only where you choose to, all governed from a single control plane. Attestation adapts to where the workload runs — Kubernetes, VMs with TPM-backed attestation, or serverless platforms (eg Cloud Run and Lambda) — while the identity model underneath stays consistent everywhere.
What changes
- Centralised policy, governance, and audit visibility across every cloud and cluster, instead of per-environment silos.
- Trust between environments is explicit and scoped — federation, not blanket access.
- New clouds and clusters onboard against the same model, so your identity layer scales with your infrastructure instead of behind it.
AI agent identity
Every agent authenticates as itself. Every action stays traceable to the human who authorised it.
The problem
AI agents act autonomously, call external APIs and MCP servers, and often chain through several services before reaching their target. Today that usually means embedding credentials in the agent and the prompts, or running every downstream call under one ambient service account — indistinguishable from a system process. Either way, by the time the request reaches an API, nobody can prove who authorised it.
How Cofide solves it
Cofide treats agents as workloads: each gets its own unique, cryptographically verified identity through Connect, the same way any other service does. Cofide Credex then handles what happens when a human's authority needs to travel with that identity. Using standards-based token exchange, Credex issues tokens that carry both who authorised the action and which agent is acting on their behalf. That identity is preserved across every hop — agent to MCP server to external API — with no shared secrets and no ambient credentials anywhere in the chain.
What changes
- Every agent action is traceable to the human who authorised it, even across multi-hop, multi-agent pipelines.
- Agents authenticate as themselves — no embedded user credentials, no indistinguishable service accounts.
- A full audit trail of "who authorised, what acted" for every request, without any custom glue code.
Open standards — interoperable by design
Cofide is built on industry standards, including SPIFFE, OAuth, and OIDC — standards that already have an ecosystem, an audit trail, and a life outside Cofide. That means the identity your workloads and agents carry is portable, verifiable by anyone who speaks the standard, and still yours if your infrastructure changes shape. It's the same reason Cofide complements your existing IAM, secrets manager, and PKI rather than requiring you to replace them.