Enhancing Data Protection with Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a service from Microsoft Azure that helps to unify the storage and management of application secrets, which could be API keys, passwords, or certificates. For example, if we are using an Azure SQL Server database in our application, instead of configuring the connection string in the application configuration, we can store the connection string securely in Azure Key Vault – this reduces the chances of accidentally leaking the connection string information. Azure Key Vault serves as a crucial asset for securely handling cryptographic keys and secrets in the cloud. Centralizing sensitive data and utilizing hardware security modules improves the security of our applications and services, minimizing the chances of unintentional disclosure and streamlining secret management throughout their life cycle. In this chapter, we will learn how to create a key vault, how to set up a secret in Azure Key Vault, and finally,...