ANOW! Automate integrates with Azure Key Vault to securely manage application secrets, encryption keys, and certificates, allowing workflows to dynamically retrieve credentials at runtime. This ensures sensitive values remain under Azure's security governance, eliminating duplication and inheriting existing rotation policies for enhanced compliance and operational reliability.
This integration connects ANOW! Automate with Azure Key Vault, Microsoft's cloud-based service for secure storage and management of application secrets, encryption keys, and certificates. ANOW! Automate's 'Secret Vault' feature facilitates the use of credentials managed by Azure security teams directly within ANOW! workflows. This eliminates the need to duplicate sensitive values, ensuring they remain under the control and governance of Azure's existing security framework.
The integration works by configuring vault instances within ANOW! Automate under the 'Domain > Secret Vault' section. Sensitive values are never persisted within ANOW! Automate; instead, they are retrieved dynamically at runtime from the configured external vault using predefined authentication methods. ANOW! Automate supports authentication types such as 'User', 'Default', 'Managed Identity', and 'Client Secret', accommodating various Azure deployment models. The 'Test Vault Connection' and 'Set as Default' actions simplify configuration management.
This solution is for enterprise IT decision-makers and security teams managing complex hybrid IT landscapes, especially those standardized on Microsoft Azure and subject to strict compliance requirements. It enables consistent security postures across Microsoft ecosystems, mitigating risks associated with credential sprawl and manual management, while protecting existing investments in Azure security infrastructure.
Achieve auditable compliance by centralizing sensitive values like passwords, API keys, and certificates in Azure Key Vault. ANOW! Automate dynamically retrieves these secrets at runtime, ensuring they are never stored internally, thereby reducing the attack surface.
Protect existing Azure investments by inheriting established rotation, expiration, and access policies from Azure Key Vault. This ensures consistency with organizational security standards, negating the need for duplicate policy management within ANOW! Automate.
Optimize operational efficiency by allowing ANOW! Automate tasks to consume credentials directly from Azure Key Vault. This reduces manual effort in credential updates and distribution, accelerating workflow setup and minimizing human error.
Automate compliance with comprehensive logging and role-based access control (RBAC). The security and design audit logs provide traceability, recording who configured vault bindings and when, supporting stringent regulatory requirements.
Use Cases
SECURITY
Orchestrate Azure resource deployments using credentials stored in Azure Key Vault, maintaining strict security policies.
COMPLIANCE
Securely manage and retrieve SAP BTP tokens from Azure Key Vault for automated SAP workflows.
DEVOPS
Automate database password rotation in Azure Key Vault and ensure secure consumption by applications.
HYBRID IT
Align ANOW! Automate vault access with Microsoft Entra ID for consistent security.
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ANOW! Automate's Secret Vault feature retrieves sensitive values dynamically at runtime from Azure Key Vault. These values are never persisted or stored within ANOW! Automate itself to ensure a robust security posture by centralizing storage externally.
We support various authentication types for Azure Key Vault, including 'User' (username/password), 'Default' (current Azure runtime context), 'Managed Identity' (Azure resource identity), and 'Client Secret' (Client Id, Client Secret, Tenant Id).
Yes, a significant benefit is that ANOW! Automate inherits the customer's established rotation, expiration, and access policies for credentials stored in Azure Key Vault. This ensures consistency with organizational security standards without duplicate policy management.
Yes, within the 'Domain > Secret Vault' configuration in ANOW! Automate, there is a 'Test Vault Connection' action. This allows administrators to validate connectivity and authentication to the configured external vault.
The integration applies robust security mechanisms, including role-based access control (RBAC) and comprehensive logging. Security and design audit logs provide traceability by recording who configured vault bindings and when, which is crucial for compliance.
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