Managing Secrets Securely in AWS
As you and your organization navigate an increasingly dynamic digital landscape, ensuring the security of your sensitive information becomes paramount. This includes safeguarding your secrets, passwords, and other credentials in a manner that aligns with best practices and industry standards.
In AWS, you have both users and roles, used by services such as Lambda and EC2 instances, which have a need for secrets to authenticate against either local services such as a Relational Database Service (RDS) database or a third-party service such as an API, for example, Salesforce. If a security incident were to ever happen, then you would need a way to rotate your credentials so they can no longer be used and then see who accessed that secret from where. This is where a secrets management tool comes into play.
Implementing a modern secrets management solution that will automate the process, ensure encryption, restrict access to authorized individuals and...
