Secrets management tools enable companies to securely store, transmit, and manage sensitive digital authentication credentials, including passwords, SSH keys, API keys, database passwords, certificates (like TLS/SSL or private certificates), tokens, encryption keys, privileged credentials, and other critical secrets. These tools allow companies to centralize the management of their secrets across their IT ecosystem, mitigating risks linked to poor and manual practices, such as hardcoding credentials in scripts, using default passwords, sharing passwords, and neglecting to rotate credentials. By replacing fragmented and manual methods, secrets management tools offer centralized visibility, oversight, and control of a company’s credentials, keys, and other secrets across various departments. They are most commonly utilized by software developers, security professionals, and IT operations teams (such as DevOps or DevSecOps).
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