Features
Continuously improve your security posture with Vault
Reduce 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 reduce security risks and build operations to scale.
Adopt identity-based security automation
Get started with secrets management.
Static secrets
Centrally store, manage, deploy, and rotate static key/value pair secrets across applications, services, systems, and infrastructure residing on-premises or multi-cloud.
Namespaces
Create namespaces to implement secure multi-tenancy. Provide least privileged access and isolation while ensuring teams can self-manage their own environments.
Authentication methods
Leverage authentication methods to assign user policies. Vault enforces authentication as part of the 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 the usage.
Standard access policies
Leverage multiple identities across different platforms with single policy enforcement for access management.
Standardize best practices across your organization
Limit exposure with dynamic secrets and improved performance.
Dynamic secrets
Reduce risk by leveraging dynamic or ephemeral secrets that are generated on demand and 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
Leverage Vault to consolidate credentials, manage secrets sprawl across multiple cloud service providers, and automate secrets policies across services.
Performance replication
Deliver your Vault cluster to multiple regions with just a few steps. Support applications that are distributed globally and reduce latency to your secrets.
Access control
Meet policy and governance requirements with configurable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to outsource secondary authentication for your application or service to a provider.
HashiCorp product integrations
Expand secrets management and security across HashiCorp products like Terraform, Boundary, and Consul to tie access policies to tokens or identities, issue and revoke JIT credentials, and authenticate apps and services.
Scale your security posture to limit your company's security risk
Implement certificate management, key management, and data encryption
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 for distribution and lifecycle management of cryptographic keys in various key management service (KMS) providers. Key management secrets engine (KMSE) allows organizations to maintain centralized control of their keys in Vault while still taking advantage of cryptographic capabilities native to KMS providers.
Encryption as a service
Relieve the burden of data encryption and decryption from application developers with Vault encryption as a service or transit secrets engine. The transit secrets engine signs and verifies data and generates hashes and hash-based message authentication codes (HMACs).
Transparent data encryption
Leverage data tokenization, such as data masking, to protect sensitive data like credit card numbers and banking details.
Integrate with your existing workflows
Kubernetes
Manage Kubernetes secrets with Vault to securely inject secrets into pods and applications.
AWS services
Integrate with AWS IAM and easily automate access to RDS, Lamda, and other AWS services.
Common use cases for Vault
Kubernetes secrets
Vault provides several ways to use Kubernetes to securely introduce secrets into applications and infrastructure. Instead of sharing credentials and tokens across pods and services, Vault allows each service to uniquely authenticate and request its own unique credentials.
Database credential rotation
Database secrets engine lets organizations automatically rotate passwords for existing database users. This makes it easy to integrate existing applications with Vault and leverage the database secrets engine for better secrets management.
Automated PKI infrastructure
Vault's PKI secrets engine dynamically generates X.509 certificates on demand and reduces manual overhead. This allows services to acquire certificates without going through the usual manual process of generating a private key and certificate signing request (CSR), submitting to a certificate authority (CA), and then waiting for the verification and signing process to complete.
Next steps
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