GitHub Advanced Security vs HashiCorp

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp sells The Infrastructure Cloud, an integrated platform that turns Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management into code. The Infrastructure Cloud automates workflows and serves as a central system of record. Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management, shortened to ILM and SLM, are the foundation of The Infrastructure Cloud. HashiCorp organizes its commercial products by Infrastructure and Security portfolios.^[4][5]

The HashiCorp Cloud Platform, or HCP, is a unified suite of SaaS products that automate the lifecycle management of the infrastructure and security supporting an organization's most critical applications. HashiCorp lets organizations implement The Infrastructure Cloud through the HashiCorp Cloud Platform, through self-managed solutions, or through a combination of the two. The Infrastructure Cloud automates provisioning, enforces policies, and standardizes how teams work across a hybrid environment. HashiCorp offers identity-based access controls and secrets management for hybrid cloud security. Terraform, Vault, and Consul are among HashiCorp products.^[1][4][9]

IBM Terraform provides automated infrastructure as code provisioning and management through a platform approach across cloud, private data centers, and SaaS infrastructure. A self-managed IBM Terraform option is for enterprises with security, compliance, and operational needs. HCP Terraform Standard and Premium customers now have access to Infragraph. Infragraph delivers a single pane of glass view of a hybrid estate through a centralized, event-driven knowledge graph.^[4]

Boundary brokers credentials to targets by integrating with external credential sources such as HashiCorp Vault. HashiCorp describes using Boundary to automatically discover target hosts and services to address access to on-demand infrastructure. HashiCorp describes using Azure Active Directory to verify the identity of a Vault user when applying access control and enforcing governance requirements in cloud resources. HashiCorp describes a Packer workflow for maintaining image compliance in Azure.^[7][8]

AGL used Terraform Enterprise to create configuration files that define infrastructure, and AGL later moved from Terraform Enterprise to HCP Terraform. Vodafone Italy uses HCP Terraform to create databases, set up its repository and team structure on GitHub, and create CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins and Microsoft Azure DevOps Services. Vodafone Italia S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company.^[10]

HCP Terraform includes role-based access control and Sentinel policy capabilities, with minimum privileges for developers, cloud engineers, and operations managers. Vodafone Italy developers can use Terraform modules served through the private registry to stand up the infrastructure a service or microservice demands.

HashiCorp, Inc. has been acquired by International Business Machines Corporation, as of February 27th, 2025, and will be integrated into the IBM organization. HashiCorp holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report and ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 certifications. HashiCorp hires external third parties to perform regular security assessment and penetration testing of its products. HashiCorp provides Long-Term Support releases for certain commercial products. LTS versions let customers stay on a supported major version for up to two years at a time, and HashiCorp promises to backport critical fixes and security patches. HashiCorp Authenticode signs Microsoft Windows executables and code signs Apple macOS executables.^{[1][9][10][13][14]}