Credentials almost never get renewed once it is issued or manual renewal • No PKI Certificate Management • API Keys are hand generated and never renewed • No SSH Key storage • Lack of automation for secrets deployment • …….
as a Service) • Data Encryption • Leasing and Renewal (Key Rotation) • Revocation • Audit Control • Integration with a wide variety of Databases and Tools • …...
share passwords • Enables very short lived passwords, less exposure if compromised • For distributed applications, every instance gets unique credentials • Constantly changing and expiring usernames/passwords are much harder to brute force • Automatic password rotation/expiration