Improve your security posture with Vault
Secure access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys with identity-based security automation.
Secure your risk areas one step at a time
Whether you’re starting with storing static secrets, or are ready to adopt dynamic credentials, automate certificate management, and offer data encryption as a service, Vault helps lower security risks and build operations to scale.
Adopt identity-based security automation
Manage all secrets and enforce policies.
- Static secretsCentrally store, manage, deploy, and rotate static key/value pair secrets across applications, services, systems, and infrastructure residing on-premises or across clouds.
- NamespacesSecure multi-tenancy with namespaces. Provide least-privileged access in an isolated environment that teams can self-manage.
- Authentication methodsUse authentication methods to assign user policies. Vault enforces authentication as part of request processing and delegates administration to the relevant configured external auth method.
- IntegrationsConnect to a deep ecosystem of partners and trusted identity providers to authenticate to Vault and leverage observability integrations to monitor usage.
- Standard access policiesManage multiple identities across different platforms with a single policy enforcement framework for access management.
- Find unmanaged secretsAutomatically discover and remediate secret sprawl by scanning existing environments for insecure credentials.
Standardize best practices across your organization
Streamline operations with proactive, automated lifecycle management.
- Dynamic secretsReduce risk with dynamic secrets. Generated on demand, they can be configured to each unique application, machine, or user for just-in-time, short-lived secrets.
- High availabilityEnable multi-server mode for high availability (HA) for your disaster recovery strategy. This allows configuration across availability zones or regions to protect against outages by running multiple Vault servers.
- Secrets syncConsolidate credentials, reduce secret sprawl across multiple cloud service providers, and automate secrets policies across services.
- Performance replicationDeliver your Vault cluster to multiple regions in just a few steps. Support applications that are distributed globally and reduce latency to access secrets.
- Access controlMeet policy and governance requirements with configurable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to outsource secondary authentication for your application or service.
- Automate developer workflowsIntegrate secrets management and security across your developer CI/CD pipelines, privileged access workflows, and service authentication with HashiCorp Terraform, Boundary, and Consul.
- Proactively prevent secret sprawlAutomate the initial scanning and ongoing detection and identification of unmanaged secrets to stop secret sprawl before it leads to data breaches.
- Events and notificationUse Vault’s dedicated event monitoring system to detect, track, and fix secrets lifecycle issues such as failed authentications or secrets expirations.
Scale your security posture to limit your security risk
Remediate risks and encrypt data seamlessly.
- Public key infrastructureProtect data by using Vault's PKI secrets engine to dynamically generate X.509 certificates (KeyFactor). Manage certificate rotation and security with Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME).
- Key lifecycle managementProvide a consistent workflow to distribute and manage cryptographic keys. The key management secrets engine centralizes control of keys in Vault and accesses cryptographic capabilities native to KMS providers.
- Encryption as a serviceTake the burden of data encryption and decryption off application developers with encryption as a service or the transit secrets engine, which signs and verifies data and generates hashes and HMACs.
- Transparent data encryptionAutomate data protection within on-premises and private infrastructure for use cases like AI/ML, compliance-protected PII, and federal compliance with Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) for enterprise databases.
Integrate with your existing workflows
Common Vault use cases
- Kubernetes SecretsUse Kubernetes to introduce secrets into apps and infrastructure securely. Instead of sharing credentials and tokens across pods and services, Vault lets each service authenticate and request its own credentials.
- Database credential rotationImprove secrets management by using the database secrets engine to automatically rotate passwords for existing database users. This makes it easy to integrate existing applications with Vault.
- Automated PKI infrastructureDynamically generate X.509 certificates on demand and reduce manual overhead. Vault’s PKI secrets engine lets services securely acquire certificates without going through the usual time-intensive manual processes.
Take the next step
Speak with our sales team for answers to any questions you have, or try HCP Vault for free on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform.