Audience

Companies interested in a service for storing and rotation of secrets, keys, and passwords used by other services

About Knox

Knox is a secret management service. Knox is a service for storing and rotation of secrets, keys, and passwords used by other services. Pinterest has a plethora of keys or secrets doing things like signing cookies, encrypting data, protecting our network via TLS, accessing our AWS machines, communicating with our third parties, and many more. If these keys become compromised, rotating (or changing our keys) used to be a difficult process generally involving a deploy and likely a code change. Keys/secrets within Pinterest were stored in git repositories. This means they were copied all over our company's infrastructure and present on many of our employees laptops. There was no way to audit who accessed or who has access to the keys. Knox was built to solve these problems. Ease of use for developers to access/use confidential secrets, keys, and credentials. Confidentiality for secrets, keys, and credentials. Provide mechanisms for key rotation in case of compromise.

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API:
Yes, Knox offers API access
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Company Information

Pinterest
Founded: 2009
United States
github.com/pinterest/knox

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Cloud
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Documentation
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Knox Product Features

Privileged Access Management

Least Privilege
Remote Access Management
Threat Intelligence
Policy Management
Application Access Control
Behavioral Analytics
Granular Access Controls
Password Management
Multifactor Authentication
Endpoint Management
Credential Management
User Activity Monitoring
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