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# Google Secret Manager Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Secrets Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/secrets-management-tools)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About Google Secret Manager
Secret Manager Store API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data. New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Secret Manager. All customers get six secret versions for analyzing and storing sensitive data.




## Google Secret Manager Reviews
  ### 1. Easy to use basic tool for managing secrets

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

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**Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024

**What do you like best about Google Secret Manager?**

It does the job well, easy to use, it's a secret manager so haven't encountered any super complicated scenarios where it would perform great or fall short

**What do you dislike about Google Secret Manager?**

It's a secrets manager, haven't had an use case where it didn't do the job as expected

**What problems is Google Secret Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Solving the problem of storing and sharing the secrets that are used with GCS

  ### 2. gcp secret manager

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sridhar K. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

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**Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023

**What do you like best about Google Secret Manager?**

the best native tool to manage credentials and secret management tool across cloud

**What do you dislike about Google Secret Manager?**

format of secrets to store and using inside application is not easy

**What problems is Google Secret Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?**

as a cloud solutioning provider and specifically to gcp i use gcp secret manager regularly day to day for our clients to handle the secrets and credentials to keep like api key,app key,database credentials,passwords etc.Securly keeping these objects and fetching them inside our application makes it super useful



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## Google Secret Manager Features
**Functionality**
- Audit trail
- Cental dashboard
- Universal approach

**Compliance**
- Access Management
- At-Risk Analysis
- DLP Configuration
- Sensitive Data Compliance

**Administration**
- Database Management
- Deduplication 
- Backup
- API / integrations

**Security **
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Data Transport
- Data Types
- Security Tools

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