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A self-hosted password vault runs on infrastructure you control instead of a vendor's cloud, giving you direct custody of encryption keys, backups, and access logs. It trades vendor convenience for operational responsibility: you patch it, you back it up, and you decide who reaches it. For teams with data residency requirements, air-gapped environments, or a board that keeps asking where the credentials live, that trade is usually worth making.

Black Hat is where the security industry gathers to compare notes on what works. In recent years, supply chain attacks have been a recurring topic, and the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report shows security teams are struggling to find a solution. According to the report, third-party involvement increased by 60% over the last year and now accounts for 48% of all breaches.

Credential sprawl has long been an issue IT and security teams have had to grapple with, and solutions like single-sign-on (SSO) have never been able to contain it completely. Now, AI is accelerating the problem. AI agents need access to credentials at an unprecedented scale, leaving IT and security teams struggling even more to ensure that every credential, across every department, is secure.

Keeper protects over 95,000 organizations, which includes many Fortune 500 enterprises and public sector agencies. The company is quickly emerging as the market standard for AI-native identity security for enterprises globally with its leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security platform.

Security teams are under constant pressure to move faster without giving up control, but in many organizations, access requests, approvals and credential workflows still live outside secure systems. They happen in chat messages, ticket comments or manual processes in tools like Slack, Teams, Jira or ServiceNow, increasing risk, reducing visibility and slowing response times.

KeeperDB is a secure, multi-protocol database client built on Keeper’s zero-knowledge platform. Available as both a free standalone desktop application and a privileged session component of KeeperPAM, KeeperDB combines a database query engine, vault-managed credentials, real-time performance monitoring and an AI-powered database assistant in a unified interface. Continue reading to learn more about how KeeperDB works, its key features and the benefits of using it to help secure database access.

The cybersecurity landscape is changing fast. At 1Password, that means we’re continuously evolving what we work on, how we work, and the culture we need to achieve our goals.