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Improve your security posture with Vault

Secure access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys with identity-based security automation.

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Secure your risk areas one step at a time

Whether you’re starting with storing static secrets, or are ready to adopt dynamic credentials, automate certificate management, and offer data encryption as a service, Vault helps lower security risks and build operations to scale.

Adopt identity-based security automation

Manage all secrets and enforce policies.

  • Static secrets
    Centrally store, manage, deploy, and rotate static key/value pair secrets across applications, services, systems, and infrastructure residing on-premises or across clouds.
  • Namespaces
    Secure multi-tenancy with namespaces. Provide least-privileged access in an isolated environment that teams can self-manage.
  • Authentication methods
    Use authentication methods to assign user policies. Vault enforces authentication as part of request processing and delegates administration to the relevant configured external auth method.
  • Integrations
    Connect to a deep ecosystem of partners and trusted identity providers to authenticate to Vault and leverage observability integrations to monitor usage.
  • Standard access policies
    Manage multiple identities across different platforms with a single policy enforcement framework for access management.
  • Find unmanaged secrets
    Automatically discover and remediate secret sprawl by scanning existing environments for insecure credentials.

Standardize best practices across your organization

Streamline operations with proactive, automated lifecycle management.

  • Dynamic secrets
    Reduce risk with dynamic secrets. Generated on demand, they can be configured to each unique application, machine, or user for just-in-time, short-lived secrets.
  • High availability
    Enable multi-server mode for high availability (HA) for your disaster recovery strategy. This allows configuration across availability zones or regions to protect against outages by running multiple Vault servers.
  • Secrets sync
    Consolidate credentials, reduce secret sprawl across multiple cloud service providers, and automate secrets policies across services.
  • Performance replication
    Deliver your Vault cluster to multiple regions in just a few steps. Support applications that are distributed globally and reduce latency to access secrets.
  • Access control
    Meet policy and governance requirements with configurable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to outsource secondary authentication for your application or service.
  • Automate developer workflows
    Integrate secrets management and security across your developer CI/CD pipelines, privileged access workflows, and service authentication with HashiCorp Terraform, Boundary, and Consul.
  • Proactively prevent secret sprawl
    Automate the initial scanning and ongoing detection and identification of unmanaged secrets to stop secret sprawl before it leads to data breaches.
  • Events and notification
    Use Vault’s dedicated event monitoring system to detect, track, and fix secrets lifecycle issues such as failed authentications or secrets expirations.

Scale your security posture to limit your security risk

Remediate risks and encrypt data seamlessly.

  • Public key infrastructure
    Protect data by using Vault's PKI secrets engine to dynamically generate X.509 certificates (KeyFactor). Manage certificate rotation and security with Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME).
  • Key lifecycle management
    Provide a consistent workflow to distribute and manage cryptographic keys. The key management secrets engine centralizes control of keys in Vault and accesses cryptographic capabilities native to KMS providers.
  • Encryption as a service
    Take the burden of data encryption and decryption off application developers with encryption as a service or the transit secrets engine, which signs and verifies data and generates hashes and HMACs.
  • Transparent data encryption
    Automate data protection within on-premises and private infrastructure for use cases like AI/ML, compliance-protected PII, and federal compliance with Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) for enterprise databases.
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Integrate with your existing workflows

Services partnerKubernetesManage Kubernetes Secrets with Vault to securely inject secrets into pods and applications.
Cloud partnerAWS servicesIntegrate with AWS IAM and easily automate access to RDS, Lamda, and other AWS services.
USE CASES

Common Vault use cases

  • Kubernetes Secrets
    Use Kubernetes to introduce secrets into apps and infrastructure securely. Instead of sharing credentials and tokens across pods and services, Vault lets each service authenticate and request its own credentials.
  • Database credential rotation
    Improve secrets management by using the database secrets engine to automatically rotate passwords for existing database users. This makes it easy to integrate existing applications with Vault.
  • Automated PKI infrastructure
    Dynamically generate X.509 certificates on demand and reduce manual overhead. Vault’s PKI secrets engine lets services securely acquire certificates without going through the usual time-intensive manual processes.

Take the next step

Speak with our sales team for answers to any questions you have, or try HCP Vault for free on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform.​​​​‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‍​‌‍‍‌‌‍​‌‍‌​‍‌​​​‍‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍​‍​‍​‌‌‍‍‌‌​‍​‌‌‌‍‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‍​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌‍‌‌​‌‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌​​‍‌‌​​‍‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‍‍‍‌​‍‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‍‌‍‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‍‌‌‌​​‌​‌‍‌‌‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌​​‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍​‍‌‌‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌​‍​‍​‍​​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍​‍​‍​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‍‍​‍​‍‌‍‍​‌‍​‌‌​‌‍‍​‌‍‍‌‌‍​‌‍‌​‍‌​​​‍‍‌‍​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍​‍‍‌‍‌​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‌‍​‌‍‌‌​​‍‍‌‍​‌‍‌‍‌​‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌​‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌​‍​‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌​​‌‍‌‌‌​​‍‌‍​‍​‍​‌‌‍‍‌‌​‍​‌‌‌‍‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‍​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌‍‌‌​‌‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌‌​‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌​​‍‌‌​​‍‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‍‍‍‌​‍‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‍‌‍‍​‌‍‌‍‌‌​‌‌‍‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‍‌‌‌​​‌​‌‍‌‌‍‌​‍​‌‍‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‌‍​‌‍‌​‌‌​​‌‍​‌‌‌​‌‍‍​​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‌‌​‌‍​‌​‍‌‍‍‌‌​​‌‌​‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍​‍​‍‌