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5 questions in Secrets Management.

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A CI/CD platform runs untrusted code from external contributors and also holds deployment credentials. How should secrets be architected so a malicious pull request cannot exfiltrate them?

A payments platform's secrets are in environment variables, set once at deployment. What is wrong, and what should replace it?

A team stores credentials in a secrets manager and considers the problem solved. What is still wrong, and what does a genuinely good secrets posture look like?

An estate has database passwords in environment variables across 200 services. Design the migration to a secrets manager.

You deploy a secrets manager. Every application now fetches its secrets from it. Security asks how the applications authenticate to the vault. What is the answer?