About the customer
Industry:Travel & Hospitality
Location:Southeast Asia
A popular resort destination in Southeast Asia, which sees millions of visitors a year across its hotels, themed attractions and restaurants, was looking to beef up their digital security.
Given the resort’s footfall and the extensive digital operations that back its physical amenities and guest services, ensuring sensitive data and critical systems were secure was non-negotiable. With visitor numbers expected to continue to rise, the business needed a scalable solution with a superior user experience.
That’s where Cloud Kinetics came in to help implement HashiCorp Vault, a leading secrets management solution.
Highlights:
A more secure environment
Risk of credential leaks minimized with centralized secret management
Minimized exposure with short-lived credentials
Built-in encryption for applications
Authentication and authorization based on trusted identities with identity-based access
Risk of credential exposure, unauthorized access and data breaches minimized
Helped meet regulatory requirements by enforcing access policies
Efficiency in operations
Automation and integration with existing infrastructure through API-driven management
Reduced manual overhead with automated secret rotation
Time spent manually rotating credentials cut from days to minutes
Simplified secret retrieval and management, reducing friction
Eliminated redundant secret storage solutions, lowering operational costs
Prevented service disruptions due to expired or compromised credentials
Challenge
Fast pass to a secure future with enhanced security features
Data breaches and cyber threats are increasingly common and the client recognized that resorts like theirs are just as vulnerable as any other business. Safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining robust security measures across its IT infrastructure and data layers was a focus area.
They launched a strategic initiative to implement a centralized, identity-based secrets and encryption management system.
- The solution needed to help overcome cyber crime issues across IT infrastructure and data layer by preventing unauthorized access and data breaches.
- The organization needed the capability to respond quickly with a scalable solution that featured API-driven management, allowing for automation and integration with existing infrastructure.
- The solution would need to adhere to security, compliance, and governance requirements.
Solution
Locking on to HashiCorp Vault for secrets management & security
The company implemented HashiCorp Vault, a security platform that provides the requisite infrastructure to help accelerate their route to success in their environment. This would provide an enterprise-grade security management toolset adhering to security, compliance, and governance requirements.
HashiCorp Vault protects sensitive data across the full lifecycle of secrets, certificates, passwords, and keys. To implement a modern Security Lifecycle operating model, Cloud Kinetics leveraged Vault’s API-driven approach to automate secret creation, consumption, expiration and rotation, cutting the need and risk of manual intervention.
Access is provided to the relevant people, machines or networks with trusted identities with access limited to what they are authorized to, courtesy fine-grained controls. Vault dynamic secrets are accessible with REST API, allowing IT engineers to utilize and integrate it with their systems more easily.
Success Metrics
Bolstered security & regulatory compliance with HashiCorp
Setting up HashiCorp Vault helped the resort property meet all its regulatory compliance needs while also cutting the risk of any breaches. In addition, automation has enabled developers and security teams to work more efficiently.
- Reduced risk of credential leaks, unauthorized access and data breaches due to centralized secrets management.
- Short-lived credentials generated help to minimize exposure.
- Provided built-in encryption for applications.
- Identity-based access ensures authentication and authorization based on trusted identities.
- Reduced time spent manually rotating credentials from days to minutes
- Eliminated redundant secret storage solutions, lowering operational costs
- Automated secret rotation, reducing manual overhead
- Reduced downtime by preventing service disruptions due to expired or compromised credentials
- API-driven management enables automation and integration with existing infrastructure
- Helped meet regulatory requirements by enforcing access policies
Setting up HashiCorp Vault helped the resort property meet all its regulatory compliance needs while also cutting the risk of any breaches. In addition, automation has enabled developers and security teams to work more efficiently.
