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title: Managing Application-to-Application Password Management (AAPM) Accounts
slug: reference-guide-3-0-0/managing-application-to-application-password-management-aapm-accounts
description: Learn how to enhance the security of client applications by managing target system passwords with SAPM and retrieving them securely through the AAPM Rest API. Take necessary steps, like creating a SAPM account, to ensure effective configuration of AAPM ac
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createdAt: 2022-07-31T14:06:34.000Z
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Applications, programs, or scripts log in with the credentials of target systems, databases, etc., just like real people do. The passwords that the client applications use are stored in databases, configuration files, etc.
This makes the target systems vulnerable if the client application is hacked or compromised in any way, causing the passwords to be accessed and used to attack the target systems.

In order to prevent this, target system passwords can be managed by SAPM, and client applications can retrieve SAPM account passwords using AAPM Rest API.

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Before configuring AAPM accounts, a SAPM account should be created.
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