I've seen both sides of credential management — neither works

I've spent years in both federal IT and the private sector. Different budgets, different compliance regimes, different acronyms. Same problem. Nobody has a good answer for "what's expiring and when?" The enterprise side On the federal side, there's no shortage of tooling. CyberArk for privileged accounts. Venafi or AppViewX for certificate lifecycle. SailPoint for identity governance. ServiceNow for tickets. Splunk for logs. Each one solves a slice of the problem, and each one costs six figures. You've got SSL certs managed in one platform, API keys tracked in another, vendor-issued licenses in a spreadsheet someone started three years ago, and service account passwords that live in someone's head, across different teams. The enterprise tools handle their slice — sometimes beautifully — but the seams between them are where things fall through. None of them give you a single pane of glass across all of it. I've watched teams with seven-figure security budgets miss certificate renewals.