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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance
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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

by Zeal Vora
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Credential management system with KMS

Software systems generally need to access shared passwords that can be credentials to access database or tokens to access other web applications.

It's not ideally a best practice to store these credentials within the code itself, as there have been many incidents of code leaks or developers pushing code that contains keys to public repositories, which leads to systems getting compromised.

So, we need a secure way to store credentials in an encrypted form and retrieve it on the go from the servers whenever required.

CredStash is a great tool that makes use of envelope encryption to store the shared secrets in DynamoDB (NoSQL database).

Let's look into how it works. Whenever we want to store a credential ...

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ISBN: 9781788299558