Security News > 2023 > May > Centralized secrets management picks up pace
"There are secrets in Jenkins, secrets in my TerraForm script, in my Infrastructure as a Service script. I have secrets everywhere."
The deployment of centralized secrets management solution is arguably the best way to properly address these issues.
For on-premises installations, CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager Enterprise is a self-hosted solution to securely authenticate, centrally control and audit how applications and DevOps and automation tools use secrets and privileged credentials to access databases, cloud environments and other sensitive resources.
Centralized secrets management solutions are rapidly coming to represent the only viable option in cloud-centric corporate environments, where the number of non-human entities requiring secure near-instant access to mission-critical systems is growing exponentially, according to Ailon.
Elsewhere TIAA, a leading provider of financial services to the academic, research, medical, cultural and governmental sectors, derived similar benefits from a recent security and secrets management upgrade.
Founded in 1918 by Andrew Carnegie, the organization has $1 trillion in combined assets under management, and it recognized the need for improved secrets management for applications and privileged access management as it migrated critical systems to the cloud.