![]() ![]() Vault Secrets Operator, an open source project released alongside Vault 1.13 and now available in beta, makes it easier to use Vault with Kubernetes Secrets, automating tasks that were previously manual. HashiCorp Vault has long been a trusted way to store, manage and control secrets across complex distributed systems. It’s relatively easy to read, modify or retrieve secrets from Kubernetes Secrets. So they’re not, well, all that secret, at least not without additional security in place. ![]() Kubernetes Secrets can be configured to encrypt secrets at rest, but they’re stored unencrypted by default, in the API server’s underlying data store (etcd). Dynamic secrets handle changing service identities while minimizing the blast radius when a credential is compromised. And Kubernetes is complex, requiring operators to integrate properly with many services and solutions.įurthermore, workloads on Kubernetes constantly change. Distributed, multicloud architecture means there’s no single castle to build a moat around. Trouble is, the task of locking down and monitoring the usage of your secrets is, to put it mildly, complicated. Unused credentials, the researchers said, are often used by hackers to access critical applications, data or infrastructure. Security breaches are costly, in terms of both money and reputation hackers are getting more creative, and more brazen.Įxhibit A: The average cost of a data breach is $4.24 million, according to a study released in 2022 by IBM and the Ponemon Institute.Įxhibit B: A whopping 99% of issued credentials go unused for 60 days, reported a study released in May 2022 by Unit 42, the security research arm of Palo Alto Networks. Securing secrets - keys and passwords and so on needed to gain access to your critical applications, data and infrastructure - has never been more important or urgent.
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