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Infisical vs Permiso

Infisical sells an all-in-one platform to manage application secrets, certificates, and privileged access across cloud, on-prem, and AI infrastructure. Permiso's Universal Identity Graph connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates, the agents it runs and every action it takes in real time. CISO Tribune files both under Non-human identity security. 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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Infisical vs Permiso: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
InfisicalInfisical sells an all-in-one platform to manage application secrets, certificates, and privileged access across cloud, on-prem, and AI infrastructure.infisical.comPermisoPermiso's Universal Identity Graph connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates, the agents it runs and every action it takes in real time.permiso.io
What it sells
  • Secrets Management[1][3]Syncs, rotates and audits application credentials across every environment and workload.
  • Agent Vault[1][3]Agent Vault is billed per brokered request.
  • Permiso Discover[3]Provides an inventory of human, non-human and AI identities wherever they live.
  • Permiso Protect[3]Evaluates the risk posture of identities based on usage patterns, exposure and entitlements.
  • Universal Identity Graph[3][11]Connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates and the agents it runs.
  • Identity Threat Detection and Response[7]Detects threats to human and non-human identities across environments.
  • Identity Runtime Attribution[3]Ties agent runs, events and tool calls to the identity behind them.
  • SandyClaw[11]Runs agent skills in a controlled sandbox.
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Headquarters
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Ownership and funding
Privately held[2][4]Owned by Okta since 2026[2][5]
Named customers
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Recent news
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  • July 30, 2026Okta said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a startup whose software detects attackers abusing identities across cloud, SaaS and AI agent environments.[14]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[4]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Infisical sells mainly to teams that manage credentials for applications and agents across cloud, on-prem, and AI infrastructure. Individuals and personal projects, and scaling teams with complex security needs, are named as audiences for Secrets Management plans. Large orgs needing SCIM, custom SLAs, and dedicated support are named as an audience for the plan with LDAP, SCIM, and approval workflows. Teams running internal PKI at small scale are named for the entry certificate offering, and organizations with existing PKI, device fleets, or compliance requirements for the offering priced per unit. Infisical offers Infisical Cloud in US and EU regions, and supported deployment in a customer's own infrastructure, including air-gapped.Its platform is described for identities across cloud, SaaS and on-prem environments. Permiso presents its tools to security teams. Its watchlist capability is aimed at threats from employees, contractors and other trusted individuals.
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October 28, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Infisical and Permiso are both filed under Non-human identity security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Infisical's primary category is Non-human identity security; Permiso's is Identity threat detection and response.
  • Infisical is also filed under Machine identity and PKI and Privileged access management. Permiso is also filed under Cloud detection and response.
  • Infisical lists Secrets Management and Agent Vault. Permiso lists Permiso Discover, Permiso Protect, Universal Identity Graph, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Identity Runtime Attribution and 1 more.
  • Infisical is privately held. Permiso is owned by Okta, since 2026.

What it sells: Infisical

What Secrets Management does[1][3]
Can require reviews for sensitive changes and access requests before they reach production. Secrets Management is billed per identity, meaning human users plus machine identities.
What Agent Vault does[1][3]
Agent Vault is billed per brokered request. Every request an agent makes is routed through Infisical and logged. An agent only ever sees placeholders, and real secrets are attached at the proxy.

What it sells: Permiso

What Permiso Discover does[3]
Permiso Discover gives enterprises an inventory of human, non-human and AI identities wherever they live. Permiso inventories identities and assesses exposure risk in identity providers, cloud service providers and SaaS applications.
What Permiso Protect does[3]
Permiso Protect continuously evaluates the risk posture of identities based on usage patterns, exposure and entitlements. Permiso Protect surfaces and quantifies high-risk identities, stale access and toxic combinations across human, vendor, AI and non-human accounts.
What Universal Identity Graph does[3][11]
The Universal Identity Graph connects every identity to the credentials it owns, the machines it creates, the agents it runs and every action it takes in real time. Permiso states that the chain stays unbroken from a human SSO login to a Lambda function to an MCP tool call. Permiso's Universal Identity Graph inventories identities in all cloud environments and assesses exposure risk.
What Identity Threat Detection and Response does[7]
Permiso provides identity threat detection and response for human and non-human identities across environments. The detection engine has 1500+ detection rules engineered by the P0 Labs team. Permiso detects access and behavioral anomalies in environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Slack and Salesforce.
What Identity Runtime Attribution does[3]
Permiso launched AI agent runtime security, bringing Identity Runtime Attribution to every agent in production. Permiso ties every run, event and tool call to the identity behind it in real time. Every agent action is tied to a specific human, non-human or AI identity in real time and is preserved as a complete audit trail.
What SandyClaw does[11]
SandyClaw runs every skill in a controlled sandbox before it touches the environment. SandyClaw records every action, every tool call and every downstream request.

Questions about Infisical and Permiso

What do Infisical and Permiso sell?
Infisical sells Secrets Management and Agent Vault. Permiso sells Permiso Discover, Permiso Protect, Universal Identity Graph, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Identity Runtime Attribution and 1 more.
Are Infisical and Permiso in the same category?
They share Non-human identity security. Infisical's primary category is Non-human identity security and Permiso's is Identity threat detection and response.
Who owns Infisical and Permiso?
Infisical is privately held. Permiso is owned by Okta, since 2026.
Who are Infisical and Permiso sold to?
From its own pages, Infisical sells mainly to teams that manage credentials for applications and agents across cloud, on-prem, and AI infrastructure. Its platform is described for identities across cloud, SaaS and on-prem environments.
What have Infisical and Permiso announced recently?
July 30, 2026: Okta said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a startup whose software detects attackers abusing identities across cloud, SaaS and AI agent environments.

About Infisical

Infisical sells an all-in-one platform to manage application secrets, certificates, and privileged access across cloud, on-prem, and AI infrastructure. Infisical describes one platform, one identity model, and one place to audit every credential that applications and agents use. Infisical prices its four product lines separately, and a customer can buy one as a point solution or several to use Infisical as a platform. Infisical products each have an open-source core under the MIT license, free forever for those who self-host.[1][3]

Infisical syncs, rotates, and audits application credentials across every environment and workload. Infisical scopes access to secrets by environment, path, and identity with fine-grained RBAC. Infisical rotates credentials on a schedule and issues short-lived, on-demand secrets scoped to each request. Infisical can require reviews for sensitive changes and access requests before they reach production.

Infisical offers a plan for individuals and personal projects with 5 identities, unlimited projects, 3 environments, and 10 secret syncs. Infisical offers a plan for scaling teams with complex security needs that includes everything in Pro plus dynamic secrets, gateways, full secret rotation, custom roles, and temporary access. Infisical sells to large orgs needing SCIM, custom SLAs, and dedicated support, with a plan that includes everything in Advanced plus LDAP, SCIM, user groups, approval workflows, KMIP, external KMS and HSM, audit log streaming, sub-organizations, and a 99.99% SLA.[3]

Customers decide which tools and APIs each agent can reach, and everything else is blocked at the proxy. Infisical routes every request an agent makes through Infisical and logs it.[3]

Infisical stands up private CAs and automates the full certificate lifecycle. Infisical shows every CA and certificate across infrastructure, with alerts and expiry warnings. Infisical continuously discovers certificates already deployed across environments. Infisical issues and pushes certificates directly to AWS load balancers and other external systems automatically. Infisical sells to teams running internal PKI at small scale, with core internal CA and certificate management, ACME-compatible external CA integration, API and ACME enrollment, and a certificate dashboard. Infisical also sells to organizations with existing PKI, device fleets, or compliance requirements, with CAs and active certificates priced per unit and unlimited SANs per certificate. Infisical offers wildcard SANs, externally-signed intermediate CAs, Microsoft AD CS, and EST enrollment to those organizations.[1][3]

Infisical replaces standing admin credentials with short-lived, identity-based sessions. Infisical sessions are fully audited across infrastructure, databases, and sensitive systems. Infisical lets users launch into databases and infra from the browser. Infisical offers a plan for teams needing access control and session auditing, with up to 50 accounts, access requests, approval workflows, credential rotation, SSH certificate auth, and command blocking.[3]

Infisical Cloud runs in US and EU regions, and the MIT-licensed core is self-hostable at no cost on any plan. Infisical plans include unlimited projects, two-factor authentication, secret sharing, community support, pay by card, and annual billing. Infisical offers licensed, supported deployment in a customer's own infrastructure, including air-gapped. Infisical states that it is SOC 2, HIPAA, and FIPS 140-3 compliant.[3]

Infisical supports SSO through SAML and OIDC with Okta, Entra ID / Azure AD, Google, JumpCloud, Keycloak, Auth0, PingOne, and general OIDC. Infisical supports SCIM provisioning for automatic user provisioning and deprovisioning from an IdP. Infisical can push audit events to an external SIEM, including non-HTTP providers via Fluent Bit. Infisical supports AWS KMS, GCP KMS, AWS CloudHSM, and PKCS#11 HSMs so root key material stays in the customer's infrastructure. Infisical can be used to manage secrets in cloud, infra tools, frameworks, and more.[1][3]

Infisical on the record

Sources

Infisical full record

  1. [1]infisical.comInfisical · infisical.com · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Infisical | The modern security platform for developers and agentsInfisical · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Infisical pricingInfisical · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Infisical Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

Permiso full record

  1. [1]permiso.ioPermiso · permiso.io · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Okta signs definitive agreement to acquire permiso securityOkta · okta.com · published August 26, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Detect and protect against human and non-human identity threats in real-timePermiso · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Identity Security Posture Management + Identity Threat Detection & ResponsePermiso · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Coverage across cloud environments to better secure the attack surfacePermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Human and Non-Human Identity Inventory, Risk Posture and GovernancePermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) for Human and Non-Human IdentitiesPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]How Permiso Detects Compromised Credentials In Your EnvironmentPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]What Are Non-Human Identities? Complete Guide to NHI Security for 2025Permiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Non-Human Identity (NHI) Threat Detection and ResponsePermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Secure Every AI Agent, Skill, and Action | PermisoPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Security - At Permiso, we don't take security lightlyPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Learn about how we make cloud zeros into cloud heroes | PermisoPermiso · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Okta to acquire Permiso Security in reported $200M identity security deal - SiliconANGLESiliconANGLE · published July 30, 2026 · Tier B

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