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layout: "intro"
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page_title: "Vault vs. Dropbox"
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sidebar_current: "vs-other-dropbox"
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description: |-
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Comparison between Vault and attempting to store secrets with Dropbox.
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# Vault vs. Dropbox
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It is an unfortunate truth that many organizations, big and small,
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often use Dropbox as a mechanism for storing secrets. It is so common
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that we've decided to make a special section for it instead of throwing
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it under the "custom solutions" header.
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Dropbox is not made for storing secrets. Even if you're using something
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such as an encrypted disk image within Dropbox, it is subpar versus a
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real secret storage server.
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A real secret management tool such as Vault has a stronger security
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model, integrates with many different authentication services, stores
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audit logs, can generate dynamic secrets, and more.
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And, due to `vault` CLI, using `vault` on a developer machine is
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simple!
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