A secret, as defined by Hashicorp, is “anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and more.” Secrets management involves the storage, protection, lifecycle management and auditing of secrets. They has educating the IT community about secrets and their vision for managing secrets using their open-source tool, Vault.
Secrets management has been a hot topic of late, even before AWS got into the game, thanks to the efforts of folks like those at Hashicorp. One of the latest editions to their security portfolio is AWS Secrets Manager which was recently announced at the AWS Summit in San Francisco. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon Web Services, has proclaimed in recent conference keynotes that “Every developer should be a security engineer’ and that “Security is everyone’s responsibility.” Backing up words with actions, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been busy pushing out new security services such as GuardDuty and default encryption for Amazon S3 buckets. The problem is compounded when companies move to the public cloud where mistakes in security implementations are magnified.
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Many of these incidents are centered around mismanagement of credentials such as improper storage of encryption keys, databases with default or no password for the admin account and access keys stored in application source code in GitHub or in an unprotected object storage bucket. On a daily basis, we are hearing about data breaches, leaked personal information and stolen passwords.
It’s no secret (pun intended) that cybersecurity is big news these days.
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