Azure key Vault

Azure key Vault

What is Azure Key-Vault?

Azure key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you to Strictly control access to, such as API Keys, password, cryptographic keys, or Certificates. Azure key vault is like a Centralized application secret which can store all type of credentials securely.

Key Vault contains 3 things:

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1)????? Certificates: All types of certificates like SSL and some other application need certificates which we can store under Key-vault certificates.

2)????? Keys: Suppose you want to encrypt the data contains in Blob storage for that keep encryption under Key-vault as Keys.

3)????? Secrets: Secrets is most used for storing URL, Token, Password. If you want to connect to Database, what you need? your username and password right. Likewise, if you need to connect to blob storage you need a SAS Token, password string, under Key-vault in Secrets.

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What is the purpose of azure key Vault:

Azure key vault is a cloud service that provides a secure storage and management solution for cryptographic keys, secrets, and certificates. It is designed for securely storing sensitive information that applications or users might need to access Data types: It mainly deals with secret (such as API keys, connection string or passwords) cryptographic keys and X.509 certificates. Key vault is designed with a strong focus on security , including features like hardware security modules (HSMs), access control policies and logging of usage events.