ANOW! Automate integrates with AWS Secrets Manager to securely retrieve and manage sensitive credentials at runtime, ensuring sensitive data is never stored directly within the automation platform. This enables unified access to secrets across hybrid environments, leveraging AWS's robust rotation and access policies without duplicating credentials.
The ANOW! Automate integration with AWS Secrets Manager enables organizations to securely manage and access sensitive information such as credentials, API keys, and SSH keys. This integration operates bidirectionally in principle, allowing ANOW! Automate to retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and provide a secure conduit for automation tasks that require these secrets. It supports various secret types, including JSON structures, ensuring flexibility for diverse enterprise needs.
At its core, the integration leverages ANOW! Automate's 'Secret Vault' feature. This mechanism ensures that sensitive values are never directly stored within ANOW! Automate. Instead, they are retrieved at the exact moment they are needed during runtime from the configured AWS Secrets Manager instance. Authentication is robust, supporting both AWS Access Key/Secret Access Key pairs and more secure Role ARN-based authentication, including Workload Identity Federation (WIF) patterns for enhanced security. This design maintains the integrity of existing security policies and rotation schedules defined within AWS.
This solution is engineered for large enterprises, particularly those in financial services, manufacturing, and retail, that operate complex hybrid IT landscapes. It caters to IT Operations, Security Teams, and Platform Engineers who require a compliant and secure method to manage credentials for automated workflows across mainframe, cloud, and on-premise systems. By centralizing secret management in AWS Secrets Manager and orchestrating access through ANOW! Automate, organizations can mitigate risks associated with scattered credentials and manual secret handling.
Maintain all sensitive credentials, API keys, and SSH keys in AWS Secrets Manager to ensure a single source of truth for secret management. ANOW! Automate retrieves these secrets on-demand, preventing duplication and reducing the attack surface across hybrid IT landscapes. This approach simplifies audits and strengthens your overall security posture.
Leverage AWS Secrets Manager's native automatic secret rotation capabilities for databases, APIs, and other services. ANOW! Automate seamlessly uses these rotated secrets without manual intervention, ensuring continuous compliance with security policies and reducing the risk of compromised long-lived credentials. This streamlines compliance efforts for regulations like GDPR, MaRisk, and DORA.
Eliminate the need to store sensitive values directly within ANOW! Automate. Secrets are fetched at runtime via secure, authenticated channels. This architecture inherently supports Zero Trust principles by ensuring credentials are accessed only when and where necessary, significantly mitigating the risk of credential exposure.
Unify secret management across diverse environments, from mainframe to cloud. This integration simplifies the orchestration of complex workflows spanning multiple platforms, ensuring that automation tasks always access the correct, up-to-date credentials without manual configuration or synchronization overhead. It protects existing investments while enabling phased modernization.
Use Cases
DEVOPS
Automate the deployment of cloud applications by dynamically retrieving database credentials and API keys from AWS Secrets Manager.
IT OPERATIONS
Orchestrate routine database maintenance tasks using dynamically retrieved, rotated credentials.
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Implement least-privilege access for batch processing by dynamically retrieving task-specific credentials.
HYBRID CLOUD
Enable ANOW! Automate to securely access secrets from different AWS accounts for hybrid workflows.
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ANOW! Automate supports multiple authentication methods, including AWS Access Key/Secret Access Key pairs and Role ARN. For enhanced security, it also supports Workload Identity Federation (WIF) patterns, enabling secure cross-account access without static keys.
No, ANOW! Automate's Secret Vault feature ensures that sensitive values are never stored directly on the platform. Secrets are retrieved from AWS Secrets Manager at runtime, precisely when needed for a task, and are not persisted within ANOW! Automate.
Yes, ANOW! Automate fully supports secrets stored as JSON structures within AWS Secrets Manager. By enabling the 'JSON Structure' option during configuration, ANOW! Automate can parse and utilize these structured secrets directly within automation tasks.
By leveraging AWS Secrets Manager, ANOW! Automate inherits AWS's robust auditing, rotation, and access policies. This provides tamper-proof audit trails and ensures that credentials adhere to strict compliance frameworks such as GDPR, MaRisk, and DORA, significantly reducing audit preparation time.
Yes, the integration is designed for seamless, no-rip-and-replace use. ANOW! Automate integrates with your existing AWS Secrets Manager instances, allowing you to leverage your current secret rotation, expiration, and access policies without modification.
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