As we are seeing world is rapidly migrating to Cloud Service Providers to get the advantages associated with cloud computing, such as cost saving, security, flexibility, mobility, and sustainability. In this all the organizations big concerns are security, as this is critical aspect of any cloud service model, which offerings involve sensitive data.
Also, we know Secure secret management is essential to protect data in the cloud. Already we have seen how to setup hashiCorp Vault, today let’s discuss about Azure Key Vault Service and how to use it.
What is the Azure Key Vault?
Azure Key Vault streamlines the secret, key, and certificate management process and enables you to maintain strict control over secrets/keys that access and encrypt your data. This expedites the overall project delivery by having developers create keys quickly for development and testing, and then seamlessly migrate them to production keys.
Here will see few more details about where its used, terms in key vault, how does it work, and also some benefits of using azure key vault, in this section.
This service focuses on the security of the below subjects:
- Secret Management
The Azure Key Vault service can be used to securely store and control access of secrets, such as authentication keys, storage account keys, passwords, tokens, API keys, .pfx files, and other secrets. - Key Management
The Azure Key Vault service can be used to manage the encryption keys for data encryption. - Certificate Management
The Azure Key Vault service enables you to provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates seamlessly for use with Azure integrated services.
Steps to authenticate an application with the Key Vault:
Check https://foxutech.com/azure-key-vault-introduction/ for more details on key vault terms and benefits.
