The CORTEX 7 Automation and Orchestration Platform is a unified software platform that provides all the required capabilities to create, manage, and maintain autonomous operations, and digitalised businesses. The CORTEX platform integrates with a broad range of 3rd party systems and requires privileged credentials for interactions with these systems. Although CORTEX has the capability to securely store the required credentials to the third-party systems internally, CORTEX also provides a Idira integration in its suite of available interfaces to store credentials in a centralized Credential Management System. The benefits of using the Idira integration are to improve security, enable centralized rather than distributed management of credentials and provide audit logging of all credential requests. It reduces the administrative burden on the CORTEX system administrators to comply with security policies such as password rotation.