An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
When a human accesses a secure service, they provide a secret – typically a password or a biometric indicator like a fingerprint.
When a non-human identity (namely a piece of software) provides a secret to access a service, it could be an API key or any of hundreds of other types of tokens.
Entro Security helps organizations discover and manage such secrets across their organizations.
Entro scans the environment (cloud or on-premises) to discover any of a thousand types of secrets. It then classifies them, ensures that the non-human identities have the proper permissions (posture management), monitors the use of secrets in production, and helps with secret rotation and placement in secure vaults. Entro can also manage the decommissioning of secrets.
Entro alerts the appropriate security analyst when a secret is compromised and can provide a replacement secret before shutting down the compromised secret, thus ensuring security without downtime – or if the compromise is severe enough, shut down the associated access immediately.
The platform works with any secret vault on the market.
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