Defakto On-Prem is an identity management solution designed for on-premises environments including data centers, private clouds, legacy applications, mainframes, and edge servers. The product replaces static credentials and service accounts with short-lived, verifiable identities for non-human actors such as servers, VMs, internal services, and edge devices. The solution addresses security challenges in legacy systems by eliminating overprivileged service accounts, long-lived secrets, and manual certificate management. It provides automated identity issuance for Windows and Linux systems, VMware, OpenStack, and other private cloud platforms without requiring code modifications to existing applications. Defakto On-Prem automates the issuance of TLS, SSH, and code-signing credentials with short-lived certificates. The platform enforces least privilege access policies for applications, services, and workloads running on-premises while providing visibility into requests, certificates, and connections across the infrastructure. The product integrates with Active Directory environments and extends to hybrid architectures, enabling unified governance across private infrastructure and cloud environments. It supports legacy applications that connect to databases, middleware, or APIs by replacing embedded credentials without modifying existing code.