Ship faster with a developer-first Secrets Manager
Secure, store, and rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials directly from your NordPass password vault. Inject secrets into apps and pipelines without hard-coding, complete with logs and access controls.
What is secrets management?
A secrets manager is a secure service for storing and managing sensitive data, like API keys, database passwords, encryption keys, and certificates across their entire lifecycle. Instead of using hard-coded secrets in your apps, you store them in one encrypted vault. This improves security, simplifies access, and supports rotating secrets or revoking them when needed.
An effective cloud secret manager helps teams move faster, stay compliant, and reduce the risk of leaks or misconfigurations.
What’s the difference between secrets and passwords?
People use passwords to log in to accounts and applications, a process known as human-to-machine authentication. However, secrets are used by applications, services, and machines to communicate securely with each other in a process called machine-to-machine authentication.
A password manager protects human credentials. A secrets manager protects machine credentials. Both are essential parts of a strong identity and access management strategy.
Store everything from API keys to certificates
Effective secrets management starts with a single, secure vault for all your non-human credentials. NordPass helps protect the full range of sensitive data your applications and services depend on by securely storing secrets in encrypted vaults.
Used by applications to access external services and APIs.
Usernames and passwords that apps use to connect to databases.
Time-limited access tokens for secure authentication and authorization.
Cryptographic keys for secure remote access to servers and repositories.
Digital certificates and private keys for encrypted TLS/SSL connections.
Secrets management at scale
Secure every stage of development
Manage secrets centrally across dev, staging, and production environments. With a cloud-based secrets manager, your apps and services can access the credentials they need without exposing them in code.
Streamline team workflows
Share secrets safely across development, DevOps, and QA teams – no more hard-coding credentials or sending them over email, chat, or unsecured Git repos.
Enforce granular access controls
Set precise permissions to control who can access your secrets, what they can do with them (view, edit, or share), and for how long, using Time‑Limited Sharing for view‑only access.
Unify credential security
Pair secrets management with enterprise password management to protect both human and machine credentials under one unified security platform.
Keep secrets safe and your code clean with NordPass
Protect your credentials with the NordPass platform's advanced encryption, flexible access controls, and secure, note-based secrets storage.
Eliminate secret sprawl
When credentials are scattered across files, configs, and source code, they become hard to track and even harder to secure. NordPass brings all your machine secrets into one encrypted vault, giving you full visibility, control, and auditability.
Avoid hard-coded credentials
Embedding secrets directly in source code is a common but serious security risk, especially when the code is pushed to shared repositories. With NordPass, secrets can be securely stored and retrieved from encrypted notes – no more hard-coded credentials or unsecured sharing.
Enforce zero-trust access
In a zero-trust environment, nothing is trusted by default, not even internal systems. NordPass verifies, authorizes, and logs every secret access request, supporting a true zero-trust architecture.
Built for security. Ready for compliance.
NordPass is independently audited and certified to meet leading security standards, so you can store sensitive data with confidence. Centralizing secret storage and credentials in an encrypted vault makes it easier to control access, reduce risk, and maintain compliance at every stage.
ISO 27001 certified
SOC 2 Type 2 certified
Cure53
HIPAA