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Akeyless vs QuSecure

Akeyless is an Identity Security Platform for securing machine, AI agent, and human identities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. QuSecure is a post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility company that gives an enterprise one place to set and enforce cryptographic policy across its infrastructure. CISO Tribune files both under Encryption, tokenization and key management. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Akeyless vs QuSecure: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AkeylessAkeyless is an Identity Security Platform for securing machine, AI agent, and human identities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.akeyless.ioQuSecureQuSecure is a post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility company that gives an enterprise one place to set and enforce cryptographic policy across its infrastructure.qusecure.com
What it sells
  • SecretlessAI®[4]Brokers just-in-time access without exposing credentials to the agent.
  • Agentic Runtime Authority[4][6][10]Controls and audits runtime agent access to supported Dynamic Secrets.
  • QuProtect R3[7][9][10]Platform for cryptographic command and control.
  • QuProtect[1][3][4][7][9][10][11][12][13]Post-quantum cybersecurity software for protecting encrypted communications and data.
  • QuEverywhere[13]Quantum-safe cryptography orchestration for websites and mobile applications.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesSan Mateo, United States[2]
Founded
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Privately held[3]Privately held[2][13]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • October 26, 2026Akeyless announced its first inclusion in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management.[11]
  • March 31, 2026Akeyless announced Agentic Runtime Authority, a runtime control capability for AI agents, and Agentic Identity Intelligence, extending its AI Agent Identity Security solution.[10]
  • September 22, 2026QuSecure announced it was named a Cool Vendor in a Gartner report on data security innovations, recognizing its post-quantum cryptography solution.[6]
  • February 11, 2026QuSecure appointed Brian Cunningham as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Growth, as enterprises and government agencies move to post-quantum cryptography.[15]
  • February 11, 2026QuSecure appointed Brian Cunningham, a former Special Operations Commander and Navy SEAL, as EVP Strategy & Growth.[5]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[3]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Akeyless describes a clientele that ranges from startups to multinational corporations. Akeyless is designed for cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid and on-prem environments, with a SaaS control plane and customer-deployed Gateways. Akeyless provides deployment guidance for organizations that deploy Gateway on cloud-managed compute platforms.From its own pages, the company directs QuProtect at commercial and federal channel partners. The stated aim is to let those partners secure their networks, communication, and data. The site also carries industry pages for financial services, insurance, energy and grid, hospital systems, manufacturing, pharma and life sciences, and state and local government. This is our reading of the pages, and they state no organisation sizes or buyer roles.
Last verified
October 7, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Akeyless and QuSecure are both filed under Encryption, tokenization and key management.
  • Both are privately held.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Akeyless's primary category is Non-human identity security; QuSecure's is Post-quantum cryptography.
  • Akeyless is also filed under Privileged access management and Machine identity and PKI.
  • Akeyless lists SecretlessAI® and Agentic Runtime Authority. QuSecure lists QuProtect R3, QuProtect and QuEverywhere.
  • QuSecure is headquartered in San Mateo, United States.

What it sells: Akeyless

What SecretlessAI® does[4]
SecretlessAI® brokers just-in-time access without exposing credentials to the agent. Akeyless keeps credentials out of AI agents and governs their access to enterprise systems.
What Agentic Runtime Authority does[4][6][10]
Agentic Runtime Authority controls and audits runtime agent access to supported Dynamic Secrets. Agentic Runtime Authority evaluates and enforces what agents are allowed to do at runtime. Akeyless tracks every agent session from prompt to action.

What it sells: QuSecure

What QuProtect R3 does[7][9][10]
QuProtect R3 delivers continuous cryptographic inventory, remediation to TLS 1.3 with ML-KEM, automated certificate rotation, and compliance evidence. QuProtect R3 enables security teams to swap algorithms and push cryptographic policy changes across their entire network from one place. QuProtect R3 operates across cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, and sovereign environments and is backwards compatible with legacy infrastructure.
What QuProtect does[1][3][4][7][9][10][11][12][13]
QuProtect is a software-based PQC solution designed to protect encrypted communications and data using quantum secure channels. QuProtect is compatible with all algorithms selected by NIST. QuProtect provides authentication of users, devices, data, and services. QuProtect protects data in transit in datacenters and in the cloud.
What QuEverywhere does[13]
QuEverywhere is a quantum-safe cryptography orchestration product launched by QuSecure. QuEverywhere protects encrypted private data on any website or mobile application with quantum-resilient connections and sessions. QuSecure states that organizations can protect sensitive data wherever it travels without installing software at the endpoint.

Questions about Akeyless and QuSecure

What do Akeyless and QuSecure sell?
Akeyless sells SecretlessAI® and Agentic Runtime Authority. QuSecure sells QuProtect R3, QuProtect and QuEverywhere.
Are Akeyless and QuSecure in the same category?
They share Encryption, tokenization and key management. Akeyless's primary category is Non-human identity security and QuSecure's is Post-quantum cryptography.
Where are Akeyless and QuSecure headquartered?
QuSecure is headquartered in San Mateo, United States.
Who owns Akeyless and QuSecure?
Akeyless is privately held. QuSecure is privately held.
Who are Akeyless and QuSecure sold to?
Akeyless describes a clientele that ranges from startups to multinational corporations. From its own pages, the company directs QuProtect at commercial and federal channel partners.
What have Akeyless and QuSecure announced recently?
October 26, 2026: Akeyless announced its first inclusion in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management. September 22, 2026: QuSecure announced it was named a Cool Vendor in a Gartner report on data security innovations, recognizing its post-quantum cryptography solution.

About Akeyless

Akeyless is an Identity Security Platform for securing machine, AI agent, and human identities across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. Akeyless combines secrets management, Modern PAM, certificate lifecycle management, encryption and KMS, Multi-Vault Governance, and AI agent security in one platform. Akeyless manages secrets, keys, certificates and machine identities through a single policy engine, operational model and interface.[1][4][5]

Akeyless describes a situation in which AI agents, workloads and services now perform most system access, while security tools still assume a human behind the keyboard. Akeyless states that the result is secrets everywhere, standing privileges, and identities no one can fully track. Akeyless gives applications, workloads, automation and AI agents secure access to the resources they need without relying on long-lived credentials. Akeyless provides short-lived, identity-based access while centrally managing the secrets, certificates and keys that still need to exist across cloud, hybrid and on-prem environments.[4][5]

Akeyless includes enterprise secrets management, and the platform extends beyond storing and rotating secrets. Akeyless supports short-lived, identity-based access, privileged access, certificates, encryption keys, machine identities and AI agent security. Akeyless secures, stores and delivers secrets dynamically. Secretless access in Akeyless lets applications, workloads and other identities authenticate and access resources without storing long-lived credentials. Akeyless can issue short-lived, just-in-time credentials when access is required and automatically expire or revoke them afterward. Akeyless supports authentication and access for applications, workloads, services, automation and other non-human identities using methods including cloud identities, Kubernetes identities, certificates and SPIFFE/SPIRE. Akeyless centralizes and secures credentials, certificates and keys across the CI/CD pipeline.[1][4][5]

Akeyless provides multiple AI-focused capabilities across the identity security platform. Akeyless keeps credentials out of AI agents and governs their access to enterprise systems. SecretlessAI® brokers just-in-time access without exposing credentials to the agent. Agentic Runtime Authority evaluates and enforces what agents are allowed to do at runtime, and Akeyless states that every agent action is validated, scoped and enforced in session. Agentic Runtime Authority controls and audits runtime agent access to supported Dynamic Secrets. Akeyless tracks every agent session from prompt to action. Akeyless AI Insights enables natural-language interaction with Akeyless resources. Identity and Secrets Intelligence provides AI-related visibility and governance surfaces in the Console. Akeyless MCP Server integrates MCP clients and tools with Akeyless services.[4][5][6]

Akeyless automates certificate issuance, renewal and compliance, and offers automated certificate lifecycle monitoring. Akeyless centralizes visibility and policy across all vaults and environments, and provides centralized governance across distributed secrets vaults. Akeyless offers a browser plugin for creating and securing employee passwords. Akeyless centralizes and automates encryption, tokenization and key management, with centralized encryption and key management across cloud platforms. Akeyless offers customers control of their encryption keys and encrypted data.[4][5]

Akeyless uses patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ as the foundation of its Zero-Knowledge Architecture. Akeyless includes hybrid post-quantum encryption alongside patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™. Akeyless is designed for cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, with a SaaS control plane and customer-deployed Gateways for local access, policy enforcement, and cryptographic operations. Akeyless provides deployment guidance for organizations that deploy Gateway on cloud-managed compute platforms. Across EKS, AKS, GKE, and Azure Container Apps, the core Gateway model is consistent. Akeyless provides a command, eventForwarderUpdateServiceNow, that updates a service now event forwarder.[4][5][7][8]

Akeyless describes a clientele that ranges from startups to multinational corporations. Akeyless offers applications, workloads, automation and AI agents secure access to resources without long-lived credentials.[1][2][4][5][9]

Akeyless on the record

Sources

Akeyless full record

  1. [1]akeyless.ioAkeyless · akeyless.io · undated page, accessed October 7, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Press releaseAkeyless · akeyless.io · published September 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Akeyless Identity Security Platform Reviews & Product Details - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier C
  4. [4]Akeyless DocumentationAkeyless · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Identity Security for Machines, AI Agents & Humans | AkeylessAkeyless · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Security With AkeylessAkeyless · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Cloud-Managed Kubernetes PlatformsAkeyless · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]/event-forwarder-update-servicenowAkeyless · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Customer JourneysAkeyless · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Akeyless Launches Runtime Authority for AI Agents, Introducing Intent-Aware Security for Autonomous Systems | AkeylessAkeyless · published March 31, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Akeyless Recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access ManagementPRNewswire · published October 26, 2026 · Tier A

QuSecure full record

  1. [1]qusecure.comQuSecure · qusecure.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Accenture invests in qusecure to protect against future quantum threats with crypto agilityAccenture · newsroom.accenture.com · published January 22, 2025 · Tier B
  3. [3]MSSP Alert: Arrow Electronics, QuSecure Partner for Post-Quantum CybersecurityMSSP Alert · published January 26, 2023 · Tier A
  4. [4]Crypto-Agility for Critical Systems | QuSecureQuSecure · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]QuSecure Appoints Brian Cunningham as EVP Strategy & Growth to Scale Federal and Commercial Adoption of Post-Quantum SecurityBusiness Wire · published February 11, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]QuSecure Recognized in the Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations in Data Security Report for its Post-Quantum Cryptography SolutionBusiness Wire · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]QuSecure Awarded Follow-On U.S. Air Force Contract for Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Solutions to Strengthen National DefenseQuSecure · published January 8, 2025 · Tier A
  8. [8]About QuSecure | The Company Leading Crypto-AgilityQuSecure · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]QuSecure Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Security | QuSecureQuSecure · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]QuSecure on 3 Ways to Accelerate Your Quantum SecurityQuSecure · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]NIST Addressing Future Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Threats Today | QuSecureAmerican Security Today · published July 6, 2022 · Tier A
  12. [12]Arrow Electronics Signs Agreement with US-based Company | QuSecureGEO SPATIAL WORLD · published January 27, 2023 · Tier A
  13. [13]QuSecure Achieves Post-Quantum Encryption BreakthroughQuSecure · published January 18, 2023 · Tier A
  14. [14]Be Quantum Safe while Achieving HR 7535 Compliance with QuSecure | QuSecureQuSecure · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]QuSecure Appoints Brian Cunningham as EVP Strategy & Growth to Scale Federal and Commercial Adoption of Post-Quantum SecurityQuSecure Inc. · published February 11, 2026 · Tier A

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