Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2024 Trend Report, Enterprise Security: Reinforcing Enterprise Application Defense.
Access and secrets management involves securing and managing sensitive information such as passwords, API keys, and certificates. In today’s cybersecurity landscape, this practice is essential for protecting against breaches, ensuring compliance, and enhancing DevOps and cloud security. By implementing effective secrets management, organizations can reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and respond to incidents more quickly. For developers, it provides a secure, convenient, and collaborative way to handle sensitive information, allowing them to focus on coding without worrying about the complexities of secure secrets handling.
