From securityboulevard.com
Applications are no longer standalone monoliths, they now rely on thousands of independent building blocks: cloud infrastructure, databases, SaaS components such as Stripe, Slack and HubSpot, just to name a few. This is a significant shift in software development. Secrets are the glue that connects these different application building blocks by making a secure connection between them, allowing them to pass information and data.
Using a distributed architecture like this comes with many advantages, including the ability to independently update services, scale services rapidly and offload development work to dedicated services such as SaaS vendors. This does come with a tradeoff, however; now we need to manage all the hundreds – or even thousands – of secrets that connect these different building blocks.