Proliferation of Secrets: Secrets are often stored across multiple locations and workflows, leading to a lack of centralized visibility and management.
Unsecured Secrets: Secrets can easily end up in insecure locations, such as code repositories, configuration files, or other unmanaged locations, increasing the risk of breaches.
Inefficient Remediation: The process of finding, prioritizing, and remediating unsecured secrets is often manual and time-consuming, leading to a reactive approach.
Scanning Capabilities: Vault Radar can scan cloud resources, on-premise environments, and various data sources (e.g., Git, Confluence, Jira) to discover unsecured secrets, personally identifiable information (PII), and non-inclusive language.
Prioritization and Classification: Vault Radar uses techniques like activeness checks, high entropy detection, and version tracking to prioritize and classify the discovered secrets based on their risk level.
Notifications and Remediation: Vault Radar integrates with tools like Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Jira to provide instant notifications about new issues. It also offers pre-defined and customizable remediation steps to address the discovered problems.
Preventing Leaks: Vault Radar can be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline using pre-commit hooks, pre-receive hooks, and pull request checks to prevent the introduction of new unsecured secrets.
Rotating Secrets: Rotating secrets involve updating a static secret (e.g., a database password) periodically, while the identifier (e.g., the username) remains the same. This approach is suitable for long-running workloads and compliance requirements.
Dynamic Secrets: Dynamic secrets are generated on-demand, unique for each client, and have a short time-to-live. They are well-suited for time-bound workloads, microservices, and temporary access scenarios.
Secret Engines: Vault Enterprise offers a vast ecosystem of secret engines, such as KV2, databases, and cloud service providers, to manage different types of secrets.
Vault Secrets: Vault Secrets is a new architecture that separates authentication from the configuration of integrations, enabling flexible and self-service access to secrets.
Zero Trust Integration: Vault Console and Boundary provide a zero-trust integration, where dynamic credentials are injected for authorized users or services, without exposing the actual credentials.
Understand the Application and Configuration: Identify the environment, programming languages, and frameworks used in your applications.
Perform Secrets Inventory: Leverage Vault Radar to discover the types and locations of secrets within your organization.
Implement Appropriate Runtime Methods: Utilize Vault Secrets, Vault Operator, or Vault Agent to manage secrets based on your infrastructure and requirements.
Refactor Applications: Follow the steps outlined in the "App Refactoring" blog to transition your applications to more secure secrets management practices.
Adopt a Holistic Security Lifecycle Management Approach: Utilize Hashicorp's Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) vision and integrate Vault, Vault Radar, and other related products to achieve a comprehensive secrets management strategy.