CipherTrust Secrets Management vs Envshed

CipherTrust Secrets Management, powered by Akeyless Vault, centralizes secrets, credentials, certificates, API keys, and tokens for DevOps tools and cloud workloads. It can create, store, rotate, and remove these items, with use cases including automated credential rotation, secrets sharing, just-in-time secret generation, and audit logs of secret use. Thales describes support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, multiple tenants, on-premises systems, and legacy systems. Named integrations include GitHub, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. The product supports dynamic secrets, CI/CD injection, secret rotation, Kubernetes integration, and audit logs. Authentication standards listed are FIDO2.1, U2F, and WebAuthn, with NFC support; biometric unlock is not supported. CSM is available through self-hosted and web access, with a cloud deployment model also listed. It can run independently or alongside CipherTrust Manager, but needs a separate license. Pricing is on request, and a 90-day free trial is available.

Envshed is a cloud secrets manager for small engineering teams, with a CLI that works across monorepos. It manages secrets and environments, supports per-user overrides, warns about expirations, allows project duplication and keeps an audit trail. For pnpm or npm workspaces, the CLI can detect workspaces and retrieve secrets from the repository root. Listed integrations include GitHub Actions, Docker, a Node.js SDK, a CLI for any shell and Coolify; a REST API supports languages including Python, Go and Rust. Secret values are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, traffic uses TLS 1.3, and encryption keys are held separately from encrypted data. Envshed offers role-based access control and an immutable audit trail, including records of secret reads and changes. The maker says it is not a zero-knowledge vault: a small on-call group with production credentials could technically decrypt a secret value. Data is stored in one region on US-based cloud infrastructure. Self-hosting is unavailable, and the service is not yet SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified. The Developer plan is free forever for up to two members and three projects; Team is $5/user/month and Business is $9/user/month.