From the course: Microsoft Security Essentials: Concepts, Solutions, and AI-Powered Protection

Azure Key Vault - Microsoft Security Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Security Essentials: Concepts, Solutions, and AI-Powered Protection

Azure Key Vault

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- [Instructor] Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. Why do you need a secrets management solution? Just think about how many user accounts, passwords, and pings you use. Is it easy for you to remember them without a tool? In an enterprise environment, numerous systems and applications rely on various types of secrets, such as passwords, API keys, and digital certificates to verify access, encrypt data, and secure communication. How can you manage these secrets securely and efficiently? This is where Azure Key Vault comes into play. It provides centralized storage for all your secrets within a specific environment. It controls access using various policies, it monitors access activities and performance, and it allows a soft delete to recover from accidental or malicious deletion. You can use Azure Key Vault to store three types of content, keys, such as encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt your data, secrets, such as passwords, pings, tokens, and any other confidential information, and the certificates, such as SSL TLS certificates to secure website communication, email encryption certificates, and your self-signed certificates for internal systems and applications. Now let's do a quick demo of Azure Key Vault. Here's the Azure Key Vault page in the Azure Portal. On the objects, you can manage keys, secrets, and certificates. Click Keys. You can generate or import keys. Click Secrets. Here you can create a secret, giving a name and a secret value. Click Certificates. Here you can generate or import certificates.

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