Secrets-Management

Boundaries matter more with AI than with humans. Trust is contextual. We trust engineers with secrets because they are accountable. We do not trust AI with secrets because it is not. That distinction matters more than people admit. AI Has No Sense of Boundary AI does not understand intent. It does not understand sensitivity. It does not understand consequences. It only understands inputs and outputs. If a secret appears in a prompt, the model treats it as data, not as something to protect. ...

Where Key Vault belongs and where it does not. Secrets often get treated like infrastructure. They are stored with infra. Managed by infra. Reviewed with infra. That is usually a mistake. Why Secrets Feel Like Infrastructure Secrets feel permanent. They feel critical. They feel risky. So they end up bundled with infrastructure decisions. But secrets change more often than infrastructure. They also belong closer to applications. Infrastructure teams often manage Key Vault because it lives in Azure alongside virtual networks, storage accounts, and databases. It gets deployed with Terraform or Bicep. It has firewall rules and access policies. It looks and feels like infrastructure. ...

How secrets sprawl happens and how to stop it. Key Vault feels deceptively simple. If something is sensitive, put it in the vault. Problem solved. That logic is how secret sprawl starts. How the Vault Becomes a Junk Drawer It usually begins with good intentions. A new service needs a secret. A developer adds it to Key Vault. Permissions are granted. Everyone moves on. Repeat this enough times and suddenly: ...