In this Azure article, we will discuss the lists of Azure Key Vault best practices that you need to follow while working with Azure Key Vault.
Azure Key Vault Best Practices
- Azure Key Vault is a cloud service that provides encryption keys and secrets like certificates, connection strings, passwords, etc. There are some best practices that need to be followed
- It is recommended to enable soft delete that helps to recover the deleted vault objects.
- You should limit the number of users who have contribute access because they can access the data pane and can misuse the data. So it is suggested to limit the number of users for those you are going to give the contribute access.
- You should enable the Diagnostics logs in Key Vault that help you to investigate easily in case of any service incidents.
- It is recommended to restrict who can access your key vault logs because they can miss utilize or delete the logs while investigating any of the service incidents.
- You should give limited access to the virtual networks that are used by all the solutions requiring vault access.
- You should ensure that you are able to recover the Azure Key Vault instances at the time of need.
Conclusion
In this Azure article, we discussed the lists of Azure Key Vault best practices that you need to follow. Thanks for reading this article !!!