Why automate credential management?
Vaulting credentials is a great start, but maturing your security program requires actively managing those credentials.
If you completed the steps outlined in our onboarding guidance, you may already be doing this through password rotations and checkouts.
A great next step is to automate that work. Doing so will reduce manual lift, costs, manual errors, and credential sprawl.
How to automate credential management
We recommend starting by setting up Secret Templates to standardize secrets and automate things like lifespan and password requirements. Then consider ways to programmatically create secrets with powershell or API and automate password management.
We typically encourage customers to pilot automations with a small group of users or credential types while establishing a practice to monitor for manual intervention. When you’re ready, you can roll those automations out more broadly.
If you’re automating credential management, what method(s) are you using to do so? How is it working for you and how did you roll it out?