Security Considerations

this section describes the key security principles, controls, and best practices implemented by the kron pam jdbc proxy driver integration with tomcat and websphere application servers the integration ensures that all credential retrieval and database authentication operations comply with enterprise grade security and regulatory standards dynamic credential handling no static password storage application servers no longer store or reference static database passwords in configuration files such as context xml or server xml all credentials are dynamically retrieved from kron pam vault at connection time runtime credential injection the proxy driver injects credentials into the database connection only during initialization these credentials are never exposed to the application code or logs in plain text automatic password rotation when credentials are rotated within the kron pam vault, new passwords are automatically applied during subsequent connection attempts without requiring configuration changes or restarts access token management access to the kron pam vault api is authorized through a secure access token mechanism tokens should be unique per integration and should be stored securely in tomcat’s or websphere’s environment configuration tokens could be used as variable placeholders (e g , ${krontoken}) and could be resolved securely at runtime transport security all communication between the proxy driver and kron pam vault occurs over https using tls 1 2 or higher the kron pam server certificate should be signed by a trusted certificate authority (ca) compliance alignment this integration supports several key enterprise security and compliance objectives credential lifecycle automation automatic rotation and retrieval of privileged credentials zero trust enforcement credentials are issued only at runtime and never persist beyond the session audit readiness all access and password usage events are logged centrally in kron pam vault