Akeyless says its Identity Security Platform has received FedRAMP Class D, or High, certification through its partnership with Second Front Systems, opening a federal deployment route for its machine-identity, credential and AI-agent security services.
The certification is provided through Second Front’s 2F Game Warden platform. The official FedRAMP Marketplace lists Game Warden as certified at Class D under the Rev5 agency path, with its original certification dating to August 2025. The certification brings Akeyless’s services into that environment.
FedRAMP is the US government’s security assessment framework for cloud services. Class D covers the High level for sensitive unclassified information. Game Warden supplies inherited security controls and continuous monitoring to support commercial software deployments into government environments.
Akeyless combines secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, public key infrastructure, workload identity management, privileged access and encryption-key management. These functions manage the credentials and cryptographic material used by applications, devices and other non-human identities to connect to systems.
Its SecretlessAI capability is designed to keep credentials out of AI agents’ hands by supplying short-lived, just-in-time access. Agentic Runtime Authority adds controls over what an agent can do after it receives access, with the aim of blocking unauthorized actions before execution.
The company says actions are linked to their originating requests to support audit trails. It also automates certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, deployment and revocation, reducing the manual work involved in managing certificate inventories.
Chief executive and co-founder Oded Hareven said agencies need to control both access and the actions autonomous systems are permitted to perform. Second Front’s North America general manager Nick Woodruff described the partnership as a way to bring specialized identity security into sensitive federal environments.
Government identity suppliers have also expanded distribution through partnerships such as Keytos and Carahsoft’s public-sector agreement for passwordless authentication and certificate management. That arrangement makes tools available through procurement channels rather than representing the same certification route.
Machine-identity investment has grown alongside these deployment efforts. Keyfactor secured growth funding for certificate and cryptographic-key management across enterprise environments. Akeyless says its existing commercial platform protects approximately one billion identity interactions daily, spanning machines, applications and AI workloads.
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
