Using the Secret Management PowerShell Module with Azure Key Vault and Azure Automation

Secret Management for Azure Automation.

If you can’t use managed identities, credential resources are a way to manage username and password credentials for Azure Automation runbooks. The Secret Management module is an alternative, and it’s a good option to manage credentials that are shared between interactive scripts and automation runbooks. This article describes how to use the Secret Management PowerShell module to fetch credentials stored in Azure Key Vault for use in an automation runbook.

Microsoft Releases 42 New Sensitive Information Types

Microsoft has released 42 new sensitive information types (SITs) in preview. The new SITs cover credentials used in services such as Azure, GitHub, Amazon, and Google, and can be deployed in Purview solutions like DLP and auto-labeling policies.