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Dealing With Merger and Acquisition Driven Vault Sprawl: The Hidden Risks Of Multiple Secret Managers in Large Enterprises
- Secret management poses challenges in enterprises, especially with multiple secret managers in use due to mergers and acquisitions.
- Redundancy in secret management tools can lead to security risks, operational inefficiencies, and compliance challenges.
- Enterprises often have multiple secret managers in place, with larger companies facing more complex 'vault sprawl'.
- Standardizing on a single secrets management platform is ideal but often challenging in growing organizations.
- Mergers and acquisitions exacerbate secret management risks by combining different systems from distinct organizations.
- Operational overhead and complexities arise from using multiple secret managers within an organization.
- Fragmented secret management landscapes increase the risk of orphaned or forgotten secrets, leading to security vulnerabilities.
- Multiple secret managers complicate audits, regulatory adherence, and increase training costs for security teams.
- Mitigating vault sprawl requires gaining visibility into all secrets, discovering their locations, and automating consolidation.
- Enterprises should prioritize visibility, standardization, and automation to ensure secure and manageable secrets at scale.
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