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