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Identity security vendor, Keeper Security, has released a certified connector that integrates its Secrets Manager platform with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, giving enterprise teams a way to retrieve and manage credentials at runtime without hardcoding sensitive values into automated workflows.
The connector, now published on the Microsoft Power Platform marketplace, works with both Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate. It is designed to close what Keeper describes as a persistent gap in enterprise security: the tendency for organisations to embed credentials directly in automation scripts and workflows as they scale cloud operations.
Hardcoded credentials in those environments represent one of the more common and exploitable vulnerabilities in enterprise infrastructure. The connector gives teams a policy-enforced path to secrets management inside Microsoft’s automation layer, built on Keeper’s zero-knowledge architecture.
CEO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security, Darren Guccione, warned that most organisations are still hardcoding the secrets that power their workflow automation.
“Workflow automation is only as secure as the secrets powering it, and most organisations are still hardcoding those secrets which creates massive cyber risk,” Guccione explained.
“This connector eliminates that exposure by bringing Keeper’s zero-knowledge architecture directly into the Microsoft automation layer: secrets stay encrypted in the vault and are retrieved only at the moment they are needed, so there is nothing hardcoded to steal.”
How the architecture works
Under the hood, the connector operates through a lightweight Python middleware service deployed as an Azure Function App. It communicates with the Keeper Vault through the Keeper Secrets Manager SDK.
All secrets remain encrypted under Keeper’s zero-knowledge security architecture. They are decrypted locally within the customer’s own Azure environment and are never transmitted in plaintext through Keeper’s infrastructure.
CTO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security, Craig Lurey, described the design as reflecting a principle that runs across the entire platform.
“Secrets should be decrypted as close to the workload as possible and only when needed,” Lurey noted.
“The Azure Function middleware gives customers a deployment model where the Keeper SDK runs inside their own Azure environment, their own key management handles the configuration and plaintext credentials are never in motion across a network boundary they do not control.”
What the connector does
The connector integrates natively in the Logic App Designer, requiring no custom import for standard deployments. It fetches credentials on demand within any Logic App flow, which means sensitive values do not need to be stored in the workflow definition itself.
Deployment has been streamlined through an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template that provisions the required infrastructure, including the Azure Function App, Key Vault and Managed Identity, in minutes.
A dynamic dropdown feature auto-populates secret and folder pickers in the Logic App designer, which Keeper argues reduces configuration error and speeds up deployment. The connector also supports the creation of secrets directly from automated workflows, covering use cases such as employee onboarding and scheduled compliance audits.
Supported operations
The connector supports five operations: List Secrets, Get Secret, Create Secret, Update Secret and List Folders.
Those operations cover a range of workflow scenarios, from API credential injection and database connection string retrieval through to GitHub secret synchronisation and vault compliance auditing.
Regional context
Microsoft Azure and Power Automate have broad enterprise adoption across the Asia-Pacific region, with Southeast Asia seeing uptake of low-code cloud tools among small and medium businesses. Australia and New Zealand have seen particular adoption in the financial services and healthcare sectors.
The connector is aimed at organisations in those environments looking to tighten the security of their automation pipelines without introducing friction into existing workflows.
Filling a gap in automation security
The release reflects a broader industry challenge. As enterprises push further into workflow automation and integrate more cloud services, the management of secrets, API keys, database credentials and other sensitive values, has become a significant operational risk.
Many organisations still rely on credentials embedded in scripts or stored in configuration files, an approach that exposes them to credential theft if those files or workflows are compromised.
Keeper’s approach puts secrets retrieval at runtime rather than at design time, ensuring credentials exist in the workflow only for the moment they are needed and are never persisted in the flow definition.
The connector is available now. Documentation, the middleware repository and deployment instructions can be found at docs.keeper.io.
Keeper Security operates a zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security platform used by organisations globally. Its KeeperPAM platform unifies password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged session management and endpoint privilege management in a single cloud-native platform with quantum-resistant encryption. Its KeeperAI product delivers real-time, AI-native threat detection across privileged sessions.
Last Updated on August 21, 2026 by Nick Ross
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