KuppingerCole Recognizes SPIRL as a 2025 Rising Star in Non-Human Identity Security

We’re honored to share that SPIRL has been recognized as a 2025 Rising Star by KuppingerCole Analysts, a major validation of our leadership in non-human identity security. 

KuppingerCole is one of the most trusted names in cybersecurity and identity research, and their Rising Star designation highlights companies driving meaningful innovation with the potential to become future market leaders. KuppingerCole's recognition of SPIRL's work in securing non-human (machine) identities highlights the critical need to move from managing secrets to managing identities in the enterprise.

According to the report “The Enterprise Secrets Management market is evolving rapidly, encompassing traditional Encryption Key and Certificate Management (EKCM), Non-Human Identity (NHI) solutions, and emerging Quantum-Safe Encryption. SPIRL exemplifies the shift toward holistic and automated workload identity solutions. As the velocity and volume of machine identities grow, automation becomes indispensable for managing lifecycle complexities. We foresee a convergence of secrets lifecycle management, NHI, and unified governance systems. Vendors like SPIRL, leveraging open standards and ephemeral identity approaches, are well-positioned to lead this transformation.” - Martin Kuppinger, KuppingerCole Analysts. 

Today’s enterprises don’t just need to manage human users — they rely on thousands or even millions of workloads, services, AI agents, and automation tools to keep their businesses running. But without identity controls for these non-human actors, companies face growing risk, operational complexity, and compliance challenges.

SPIRL replaces exposed secrets, over-privileged service accounts, and blind machine access with dynamic, verifiable non-human identities—at scale—reducing risk and strengthening security. Unlike traditional solutions, SPIRL issues short-lived, continuously rotated credentials using open standards — no proxies or distributed vaults required. This approach bridges DevOps, platform engineering, security and identity teams, giving developers flexibility while meeting enterprise security and governance needs. We help companies achieve Zero Trust for non-human identities without disrupting operations or slowing down innovation.

We’re honored to be recognized alongside other leaders who are shaping the future of cybersecurity. And we’re just getting started.

To our customers, partners, and SPIRL team: thank you for your continued support and belief in what we’re building.

The world is moving fast — and non-human identities are at the heart of it. We’re proud to be leading the way.

Want to learn more about why KuppingerCole sees us as a Rising Star? Read the Report