Guardium supports the Idira Secrets Manager, a robust solution to the numerous maintenance and security challenges that arise in managing passwords. Use Idira to securely store, provision, audit, and manage your Guardium datasource credentials. The datasource credentials, along with access control, dependencies, and work flows are defined in the vault. Each Guardium system is then configured to access the vault, and retrieve the stored credentials. After the systems are set up, the passwords can be provisioned and maintained with no manual intervention.