LAB ID: secure-application-credentials-with-aws-secrets-manager
Keeping sensitive information secure in the digital world may look like a challenge. With Secrets Manager Labs, keeping sensitive information secure is a piece of cake. Secrets Manager Labs offers an opportunity to learn how to securely store, manage, and retrieve sensitive information using AWS Secrets Manager. The lab derives factors from modern applications – wherein users require credentials to access information. Parts of the system that are based on this principle are database passwords, API Keys, authentication tokens, and third-party service credentials. Storing these pieces of information directly in the application code poses a greater security threat. This is in the wake of rising cybersecurity attacks from every possible front. Merging the storage facility directly with configuration files carries the same level of risk.