CertifyClouds
Never let a secret expire again.
An Azure secret lifecycle automation platform that discovers, monitors, rotates, and synchronises secrets across cloud environments. Self-hosted inside the customer's own Azure tenant with zero-knowledge architecture where secrets never leave their network.
Visit CertifyClouds73% of cloud outages are caused by expired credentials.
Security teams managing Azure infrastructure spend hours clicking through the Azure Portal to find expiring secrets. When they find one, rotating it takes 15-30 minutes of manual coordination. You must update the App Registration, find every resource that references it, update each one, verify nothing broke. One missed dependency and you've caused an outage.
CertifyClouds needed to automate the entire lifecycle: discover all secrets across subscriptions in seconds, score them for compliance risk, rotate them safely with blast radius analysis, and optionally sync them to AWS or GCP for disaster recovery. And it all had to run inside the customer's own infrastructure with no SaaS data exfiltration concerns.
Connecting secrets to the resources that use them.
The hard part isn't finding secrets in Key Vault. It's knowing which Azure resources depend on each secret. An App Registration secret might be referenced by an App Service connection string, a Function App environment variable, an API Management policy, and a Logic App connector. All use different reference formats.
If you rotate the secret without updating every dependent resource, you cause exactly the outage you were trying to prevent. We needed a dependency discovery engine that could scan 11+ Azure resource types and build a complete blast radius graph before any rotation happens.
Discovery, rotation, compliance, sync.
Asset Discovery
Scans all Key Vaults across Azure subscriptions in 30 seconds. Finds secrets, certificates, and keys with expiry tracking. Delta detection highlights what changed since the last scan.
Dependency Mapping
Scans 11+ Azure resource types (App Services, Functions, SQL, Container Apps, Logic Apps, API Management, AKS, and more) to build a dependency graph. Shows exactly which resources break if a secret expires.
Intelligent Secret Matching
Automatically correlates App Registration credentials to their corresponding Key Vault secrets using multiple matching signals and confidence scoring. No manual mapping required.
One-Click Rotation
Rotates App Registration secrets and certificates end-to-end. Creates the new credential, updates Key Vault, updates all dependent resources, and removes the old credential. Real-time progress tracking throughout.
Compliance Scoring
Rule-based security assessment across all discovered assets. Scores secrets on expiry proximity, rotation age, and configuration best practices. Audit logging for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA.
Multi-Cloud Sync
Syncs secrets from Azure Key Vault to AWS (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, ACM) and GCP (Secret Manager, Certificate Manager). Scheduled sync with drift detection for disaster recovery.
Alert Rules
Configurable alerts via email and webhooks for expiring secrets, failed rotations, compliance score drops, and sync drift. Scheduled notifications before expiry deadlines.
Blast Radius Analysis
Before any rotation, shows the complete dependency graph visually. Every resource that references the secret is visible, so you know the exact impact before clicking rotate.
Self-Hosted Deployment
Ships as a container deployed to the customer's own Azure infrastructure. Managed Identity authentication. No credentials stored. Database in their subscription. Zero data exfiltration.
Why we built it this way.
Zero-knowledge by architecture, not policy
Enterprise security teams won't trust a SaaS that touches their secrets. Instead of asking customers to trust us, we removed the trust requirement entirely. CertifyClouds deploys inside the customer's own Azure subscription. It authenticates via Managed Identity with no stored credentials. The database is in their subscription. Secret values never leave their network. We literally can't see their secrets, by design.
Intelligent credential correlation
Connecting a Key Vault secret to the App Registration credential it stores is non-deterministic. There's no standard naming convention across organisations. We built a matching engine that uses multiple independent signals to correlate credentials with high confidence, even when naming is inconsistent. No manual mapping, no spreadsheets.
Built for scale and resilience
Discovery scans across dozens of Key Vaults and hundreds of resources run concurrently. The backend is fully async and non-blocking, so large estates complete in seconds rather than minutes. Cloud API calls are wrapped with circuit breakers and retry logic so the system degrades gracefully when provider APIs hit rate limits or go down.
Self-hosted, not SaaS
CertifyClouds ships as a container that customers deploy to their own Azure subscription. Managed Identity handles authentication. The database lives in their infrastructure. No data leaves their network, ever. This means no lengthy procurement reviews, no third-party risk assessments, and no security team pushback.
Hours of manual work, reduced to seconds.
CertifyClouds is live at certifyclouds.com, serving mid-market Azure organisations with compliance requirements. What used to take 2-4 hours of clicking through the Azure Portal now takes 30 seconds. What used to take 15-30 minutes of manual credential rotation now takes one click with full blast radius visibility.
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