API Secrets Management: Best Practices for Integrating Kong Gateway with Your Favorite Identity Manager

What is Kong Secrets Management?

Kong Secrets Management is a new feature that allows you to safely store and retrieve secrets used throughout the Kong Gateway deployment, improving the fundamental security of your applications. Securing your entire Kong deployment with centralized secrets makes it easier to manage and build governance around your Kong deployments.

Storing credentials in your API Gateway is a trap that many organizations fall into. Simon Green (Solutions Engineer at Kong) will show you how the Kong Secrets Management feature can help you integrate with a purpose-built external Identity Manager, eliminating secrets sprawl and improving your security posture.