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9 Ways to Handle Secrets Management for Multi-Cloud Setups: Rotation, Auditing, and Access Control
- Gartner suggests that new security threats are among the biggest pain points for CIOs across businesses.
- Secrets management is an essential part of cybersecurity strategy for multi-cloud infrastructure.
- Managing secrets requires ways to protect them from breaches and unauthorized access and monitor their usage.
- Three main methods—rotation, auditing, and access control—can ascertain such proactiveness and vigilance in secrets management.
- Nine ways to implement these techniques are discussed with their contrast for different cloud vendors, namely AWS, Azure Cloud, and GCP Cloud.
- Secret rotation is the first line of defense where the secrets are consistently rotated or updated to minimize, if not eliminate, any breaches.
- Secret auditing allows security teams and cloud management experts to track when API tokens, encryption keys, and other such secrets were accessed and used for any services.
- Access control is critical for multi-cloud-based secrets management as it helps implement the principle of least privilege on the secrets.
- Multi-cloud infrastructure is one of the most sensible choices for businesses when dealing with cloud computing.
- Secrets management is necessary to maximize multi-cloud's potential while ensuring top-notch security and compliance.
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