At SPIRL our mission is to simplify production security.

Join us at IETF Bangkok

Catch-up on the latest on workload identity standards with Pieter Kasselman at IETF 122 Bangkok March 17-21, 2025.

SPIRL Wins Big: Triple Winner in the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

"Don't break prod," and why your secrets are future outages

Discover how enterprises manage 20-45x more machine secrets than human passwords, the risks this poses, and how SPIFFE technology offers a path forward for secure workload identity management.

AI Security Begins with Workload Identity

Discover how workload identity strengthens AI security by ensuring precise access control and compliance. Learn why identity-first security is key to protecting AI systems from evolving threats.

Non-Human Identity Misconceptions: Secrets are not Identities

OWASP's "Non-Human Identities Top 10" list reflects outdated industry practices. Learn how modern NHI providers using open standards mitigate or eliminate 80% of these security risks.

KubeCon 2024 highlights demand for workload identity solutions

At KubeCon 2024 in Salt Lake City, SPIRL team members gave a talk on SPIFFE deployments and workload identity management across multi-cloud environments. The conference emphasized security and AI challenges. Other team members engaged with attendees through booth discussions and technical deep-dives.

KubeCon update: Meet the team at your convenience!

Our team will present on the conference floor and help staff the SPIFFE booth throughout the event.

Workload Identity: A Problem Made for Standards!

SPIRL’s strength lies in its alignment with the SPIFFE standard, creating predictable system operations that the IETF’s WIMSE group is now expanding by uniting SPIFFE, OAuth, and JWT into a future-proof foundation for workload identity.

Workload identity's past and future: SPIRL's KubeCon 2024 Deep dives

Join SPIRL at KubeCon North America 2024 in Salt Lake City! Catch insights from our co-founders and team on workload identity and SPIFFE deployments beyond Kubernetes, and stop by the SPIFFE booth to connect with us in person.

Shift from Certificate Management to Credential Management

Automating credential lifecycles, as seen in systems like SPIFFE and Kerberos, turns complex certificate management into a seamless, background process—reducing downtime and eliminating manual renewals for a more secure, resilient infrastructure.

Join us at Cloud Native Security Con 2024

For the past few years, the CNCF, part of the Linux Foundation, has hosted the Cloud Native Security Conference, a key gathering focused on.

Why Multi-Factor Authentication for Workloads is a Critical Security Control

Recent breaches among Snowflake customers highlight the critical need for strong security measures to protect data and infrastructure.

How to construct SPIFFE IDs

Today, let’s dive into the essentials of constructing SPIFFE IDs and ensuring your workloads have unique, consistent identities.

Simplifying SPIFFE: Accessible Workload Identity with SPIRL

Discover how this SPIFFE-based workload identity solution is designed to truly bring secure identity to everyone. What exactly is SPIFFE, and how can it expand to encompass ‘everyone’ even more?

Hello World

Over the last six years, technology practitioners and the industry at large have been going through a massive paradigm shift in the way that we think about defensive security.