The Future of Enterprise Secrets Management

In this session Martin Kuppinger, from the world renowned KuppingerCole research firm shares his perspective and recently published independent research on secrets management. 

With a fireside chat format, our host Chris Smith quizzes Martin Kuppinger and Kurt Sand, General Manager of CyberArk’s Machine Identity Security business on the challenges security teams face securing their secrets. Challenges, such as: 

• How are organizations able to reduce their technical debt of unsecured and static secrets?  
• Can automation and discovery tools address these challenges at scale?  
• Should organizations push to consolidate secrets management across their complex, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments – or is this just not realistic. 
   
  Join us, together with Martin Kuppinger, Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts, for an insider’s view and demos on the challenges and tools needed to manage and secure secrets and the applications they protect. 

In this session, you’ll learn: 

• Key takeaways from the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass
• Why a unified approach addresses secrets sprawl and operational complexity
• How to accelerate developer productivity while strengthening security
• A live demo of market-leading Secrets Management solution 

Whether you’re battling hardcoded credentials, securing machine identities, or looking to streamline secrets management at scale, you’ll walk away with actionable insights—to help you address the growing challenge of unmanaged secrets, secrets sprawl and more. 

Speakers:  
Kurt Sand, GM Machine Identity Security, CyberArk 
Martin Kuppinger, Founder and Principal Analyst, Kuppingercole  
Chris Smith, Product Marketing Director, Machines, CyberArk