Azure Key Vault

Securing resources using passwords, keys, credentials, certificates, and unique identifiers is an important element of any environment and application from the security perspective. They need to be protected, and ensuring that these resources remain secure and do not get compromised is an important pillar of security architecture. Management and operations that keep the secrets and keys secure, while making them available when needed, are important aspects that cannot be ignored. Typically, these secrets are used all over the place—within the source code, inside configuration files, on pieces of paper, and in other digital formats. To overcome these challenges and store all secrets uniformly in a centralized secure storage, Azure Key Vault should be used.

Azure Key Vault is well integrated with other Azure services. For example, it would be easy to use a certificate stored in Azure Key Vault and deploy it to an Azure virtual machine's certificate store...