Secrets Management
The controlled storage distribution rotation and auditing of credentials keys and other sensitive values.
Plain English
Keep sensitive credentials protected and provide them only where needed.
In context
Secrets management reduces exposure by avoiding hard-coded credentials enforcing access policies rotating values and recording use.
Example
“The deployment reads its database credential from the secrets manager at runtime.”
When you'll hear this
- application deployment
- credential rotation
- incident response
Common misunderstanding
A secrets vault does not remove the need for least privilege rotation or secure application handling.
Also known as
secret managementsecret vaultvault
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Updated: 2026-08-26
