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Secrets Management

Centrally store, access, and distribute secrets

Say goodbye to credential chaos and hello to streamlined security with automated secrets management.

Too many secrets, too little control

Your secrets need a secure, central home — but static, IP-based solutions struggle to keep pace in today’s dynamic environments. As applications and machines constantly change, secrets can easily sprawl across systems. Without a centralized way to manage them, it’s tough to keep secrets secure or track who has access.

Solution

End-to-end lifecycle management for secrets

HashiCorp Vault helps platform and security teams eliminate credential sprawl by centrally storing, accessing, rotating, syncing, and distributing dynamic secrets like tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. Auto-rotation, and expiration policies keep secrets secure and up to date, minimizing your risk of network exposure from stale credentials.


Benefits

Manage secrets and protect sensitive data at scale

Centralized secrets management isn’t just about security — it’s about streamlining workflows and boosting productivity across teams.

  • Reduce riskDynamic secrets, control groups, and other features keep your sensitive information protected in flight and at rest.
  • Move fasterCentralized secrets management reduces the time required to deploy security workflows, increasing productivity.
  • Cut costsReduce the complexities of deploying secrets and the costs associated with manual management.
Customer case study

Under locks and keys

Leading German bank locks away vital secrets with Vault’s encryption as a service feature.

Resources

Get started with these resources

Explore articles, tutorials, and other content to ease collaboration and help teams work faster with Vault.

  • Store secrets with the KV secrets engineA generic key-value (KV) store used to store arbitrary secrets within the configured physical storage for Vault.
  • Dynamically generate database credentialsUse the database secrets engine to generate database credentials dynamically based on configured roles.
  • Secure and simplify Kubernetes SecretsIntegrate Vault with Kubernetes to centrally manage, inject, and rotate secrets in your cluster.