Smallstep Platform vs. Silverfort

Smallstep is a certificate management and device identity platform that helps organizations automate encryption, authentication, and access control across devices, users, and workloads. It provides a unified approach to establishing digital trust using cryptographic certificates rather than passwords or shared secrets. Smallstep is designed for IT, security, and DevOps teams that manage distributed infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Silverfort’s Unified Identity Protection Platform is the first to consolidate security controls across corporate networks and cloud environments to block identity-based attacks. Using innovative agentless and proxyless technology, Silverfort seamlessly integrates with all existing IAM solutions (e.g., AD, RADIUS, Azure AD, Okta, Ping, AWS IAM), extending coverage to assets that could not previously have been protected, such as legacy applications, IT infrastructure, file systems, command-line tools, and machine-to-machine access.