Ori Mankali, senior VP of engineering at Akeyless, talks about secrets management and distributed fragment cryptography. They discuss the challenges of managing secrets at scale and the need for access policies and audit capabilities. They explain the concept of distributed fragment cryptography and its role in boosting security. The podcast also covers the downsides of relying on clients, cryptography standards, integrating Ikylas with major cloud providers, and the challenges of secrets management in Kubernetes and CICD platforms.