Vault by HashiCorp provides organizations with identity-based security to automatically authenticate and authorize access to secrets and sensitive data. It manages access to secrets and prevents credentials from falling into the wrong hands with identity-based security. Vault secures application identities and protects sensitive data by blocking unauthorized users through authentication based on trusted identities. It uses short-lived, just-in-time credentials that expire automatically. Vault allows the use of code to enforce access policies and speed up audits. It provides a single API to automate secret management, lowering costs by scaling access to secrets across large IT environments. Vault replaces redundant secret storage applications and continuously protects credentials and secrets, inspects for unsecured secrets, and connects authorized machines. It uses identity-based controls to protect, inspect, connect, and manage the lifecycle of secrets, users, machines, services, and data. Vault helps organizations manage all secrets and enforce policies, standardize best practices across the organization, streamline operations with proactive, automated lifecycle management, and scale security posture to limit security risk. It integrates with existing workflows and provides encryption-as-a-service with centralized key management to simplify data encryption. Vault enables organizations to manage secrets, protect sensitive data, and control access tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. It helps balance security and protection of sensitive data while minimizing time and effort, accelerates audits, and achieves compliance across clouds. Vault's database secrets engine automates credential management for various database systems, generating credentials dynamically based on roles and using a leasing mechanism to roll keys, creating dynamic secrets. Vault provides encryption-as-a-service with centralized key management to simplify encrypting data in transit and at rest across clouds and data centers. It ensures that service-to-service communication is authorized based on mutual authentication, encrypted in-transit, and governed by identity-based policies.
