Secrets Management

Manage Application Secrets Safely

Applications depend on sensitive values such as API keys, database passwords, signing keys, client secrets, and service credentials. These values often provide direct access to data or privileged operations, so protecting them requires more than keeping them out of source code. Good secrets management controls the entire lifecycle: creation, storage, delivery, use, rotation, revocation, and incident response. Treat secrets as credentials, not configuration A useful distinction is whether disclosure of a value would let an attacker authenticate, decrypt protected information, forge trusted data, or perform privileged actions.