Confidant vs IBM SKLM: What are the differences?

What is Confidant? An open-source secret management service from Lyft. Confidant is a open source secret management service that provides user-friendly storage and access to secrets in a secure way, from the developers at Lyft.

What is IBM SKLM? Centralize, simplify and automate encryption key management. It centralizes, simplifies and automates the encryption key management process to help minimize risk and reduce operational costs of encryption key management. It offers secure, robust key storage, key serving and key lifecycle management for IBM and non-IBM storage solutions using the OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP).

Confidant and IBM SKLM belong to "Secrets Management" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Confidant are:

• KMS Authentication
• At-rest encryption of versioned secrets
• A user-friendly web interface for managing secrets

On the other hand, IBM SKLM provides the following key features:

• Centralized, transparent key management
• Offers simple, secure integration between data-at-rest storage systems and IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager with the industry-standard KMIP protocol
• Reduces key management costs by automating the assignment and rotation of keys