Manage the lifecycle of your application secrets in Azure with ease. Migrate to more secure, auditable operations standards on your own terms. AuthJanitor supports varying levels of application secret security, based on your organization's security requirements.

Disclaimer: Using AuthJanitor does not guarantee the security of your application. There is no substitute for a proper security review from a reputable cybersecurity and/or auditing partner.

🔴 This system has not been thoroughly tested yet! Please use at your own risk! 🔴

Installation (Azure)

Create the AuthJanitor application

Follow the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/quickstart-register-app to register a new application in the Active Directory tenant where you expect to run AuthJanitor. You may use any nomenclature you prefer; make note of the Client ID and generate a Client Secret. These will be necessary for the application to run properly. The application must have the following permissions:

• Azure AD - Sign in and Read User Profile
• Azure Service Management API - Access as organization users (ADMIN CONSENT REQUIRED)

(Optional for User Management to work)

• Graph - Read Applications
• Graph - Manage App Permission Grants and Role Assignments
• Graph - Read All users' basic profiles

Deploy Infrastructure

Once your application is created, you can quickly deploy AuthJanitor's infrastructure to your Azure subscription by clicking the button below:

You will need your Client ID and Client Secret from the application created above.

Deploy Code

At the moment, there is no quick way to deploy the AuthJanitor application (expect this soon). Currently, you must build/publish the code manually:

1. Build and publish the AuthJanitor.AspNet.AdminUi project to a file folder.
2. Upload the content of the publish/wwwroot directory to the $web share of the AuthJanitor storage account created by the ARM template
3. Enable the "Static Website" feature of the AuthJanitor storage account from the Azure Portal. (Currently there is no way to do this via ARM.)
4. Build and publish the AuthJanitor.Functions.AdminApi project to the Functions app created in the deployment.
5. Navigate to the URL for the new Functions app and launch "Configuration Wizard" from the main menu, if it does not appear automatically.

🔓 Learn more about how AuthJanitor can improve the security around your application secrets here.

Secret Rotation Process

Glossary of Terms

Provider

A module which implements some functionality, either to handle an Application Lifecycle or rekey a Rekeyable Object.

Provider Configuration

Configuration which the Provider consumes in order to access the Application Lifecycle or Rekeyable Object.

Application Lifecycle Provider

A Provider with the logic necessary to handle the lifecycle of application which consumes some information (key, secret, environment variable, connection string) to access a Rekeyable Object.

Rekeyable Object Provider

A Provider with the logic necessary to rekey a service or object. This might be a database, storage, or an encryption key.

Resource

A GUID-identified model which joins a Provider with its Provider Configuration. Resources also have a display name and description. A Resource can either wrap an Application Lifecycle or a Rekeyable Object provider.

Managed Secret

A GUID-identified model which joins one or more Resources which make up one or more rekeyable objects and their corresponding application lifecycles. When using multiple rekeyable objects and/or lifecycles, a User Hint must be specified. When the rekeying is performed, the User Hints are matched between rekeyable objects and application lifecycles to identify where different secrets should be persisted. Managed Secrets also have a display name and description, as well as metadata on the validity period and rotation history.

Rekeying Task

A GUID-identified model to a Managed Secret which needs to be rekeyed. A Rekeying Task has a queued date and an expiry date; the expiry date refers to the point in time where the key is rendered invalid. A Rekeying Task must be approved by an administrator or will be executed automatically by the AuthJanitor Agent.

Contributing

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