Pillaging keys, secrets, and certificates from Key Vaults
Azure Key Vault is a service for managing application secrets, keys, and certificates in the Azure platform (Figure 6.41). The primary use case of Key Vault is to provide a secure way for application developers to centrally store sensitive information that their code needs to use at runtime without making that information part of the code. The sensitive information that is commonly stored in Key Vault could be tokens, passwords, data store connection strings, API keys, and other secret types.
Figure 6.41 – How applications access the Key Vault
As you could imagine, a service like Key Vault is usually a popular target for attackers, as it potentially contains information that can be used to move laterally in an attack chain or used to decrypt encrypted information.
Access to a Key Vault resource is controlled through two planes (Figure 6.42) – the management plane, which has an endpoint...
