Using the NGINX Plus Key-Value Store to Secure Ephemeral SSL Keys from HashiCorp Vault
Using the NGINX Plus Key-Value Store to Secure Ephemeral SSL Keys from HashiCorp Vault In the first two posts in our series about securing SSL keys and certificates during transport and storage, we discussed using tools such as HashiCorp Vault and hardware security modules (HSMs) to secure SSL key and certificate data on disk for NGINX: Secure Distribution of SSL Private Keys with NGINX Protecting SSL Private Keys in NGINX with HashiCorp Vault In many situations, storing SSL certificate data on disk is a tolerable risk as long as additional security guardrails are used to govern access to those certificates. But in some use cases there is an extra need to keep all security‑related components off of disk and only stored in and accessed from memory. The two most common use cases are environments with heightened securitys where any at‑rest [ more… ]