Secret remediation best practices

Secure remediation of insecure secrets is crucial to prevent downtime or breaches. The common challenges in secrets management arise from the lack of control over secret usage by SecOps teams, and the need for developers to manage high-value secrets using secret management vaults. Modern cloud security practices encourage organizations to audit code closely and require developers to manage secrets securely using secret management vaults. A standard framework for secret discovery and remediation includes a discovery and notification workflow, proactive and reactive remediation workflows, and key tasks such as assessing the impact of changing the secret, revoking, rotating, deleting, and tracking the lifecycle of a secret. HCP Vault Radar is one tool that supports the full best-practices workflow for secret discovery and remediation.