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Securing Pipelines Through Secrets ManagementCategory: Security, Data, Infrastructure, Hashicorp, automation
While secrets management tools help, you need to implement best practices and processes to successfully manage secrets in a DevOps environment.
In simple terms, secrets management protects non-human identities using tools, practices and processes within an organization.
The first step for creating and protecting your organization’s strong secrets is putting processes in place — processes for creating secrets, for keeping track of secrets and for making sure secrets remain secure.
While secrets management applies broadly, you can, and really should, integrate your secrets management directly into elements of your workflows where you’re probably already employing automation: CI/CD pipelines.
Once you have your secrets management, policies and integration in place, secrets maintenance becomes much easier and secrets rotation becomes much more frequent.
In simple terms, secrets management protects non-human identities using tools, practices and processes within an organization.
The first step for creating and protecting your organization’s strong secrets is putting processes in place — processes for creating secrets, for keeping track of secrets and for making sure secrets remain secure.
While secrets management applies broadly, you can, and really should, integrate your secrets management directly into elements of your workflows where you’re probably already employing automation: CI/CD pipelines.
Once you have your secrets management, policies and integration in place, secrets maintenance becomes much easier and secrets rotation becomes much more frequent.
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