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title: "Secret Manager glossary"
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# Secret Manager glossary

Available in VPC

These are the descriptions of the glossary required to use or understand Secret Manager.

### Secret Manager admin

The sub account that has the permissions to execute all functions of Secret Manager (the sub account that has the NCP_SECRETMANAGER_MANAGER policy)

### Secret Manager user

The sub account that has the permission to execute only the View function of Secret Manager (the sub account that has the NCP_SECRETMANAGER_USER policy)

### Secret Manager basic key

The protection key that is assigned to each user and managed automatically by NAVER Cloud Platform

### Security password

A type of credential that refers to knowledge-based authentication methods such as passwords, passphrases, keys, and Personal Identification Numbers (PINs)

### Protection key

The key that encrypts the secret value

### Seal

To encrypt the data encryption key (DEK) with the key encryption key (KEK), which is the higher-level key

### Envelope encryption

A method to store the encrypted data along with the seal key

### User managed key

The key that the user creates and manages in Key Management Service in person

### Secret

A resource that includes the security password addressed in Secret Manager

### Secret value

A group of fields corresponding to the security password within the secret

### Secret store

A repository that saves secret values by encrypting them

### Secret status

The status of the resource managed in Secret Manager

### Secret chain

The list of secret values, which keep secret values that are rotated while using secrets in the order of rotation

### Secret stage

Information that describes the status of secret values in the secret chain

### Secret rotation

The process of rotating a security password in the remote system that actually uses the security password and updating it to Secret Manager

### Credential

Any ID, password, certificate, or user biometric information used for authentication