Lexicon

Remove Secret from Code

Kind: technique

Layer: Security Core

Record: lexicon:remove-secret-from-code

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for deleting a credential from source and history and reading it from a secret store instead.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after User Convenience and before Secret Rotation.

Category

  • Security Privacy Compliance

Refactors

  • Hardcoded Configuration

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns