WSO2 Carbon is shipped with a secure vault implementation which is a modified version of synapse secure vault. It provides capability to securely store sensitive data such as plain-text passwords in configuration files of the WSO2 Carbon platform, such as user-mgt.xml, Carbon.xml, Axis2.xml, registry.xml etc. All WSO2 Carbon-based products inherit the secure vault implementation from the core Carbon platform. For more information, refer to section WSO2 Carbon Secure Vault under Carbon Tools.
However, when securing passwords of more product-specific configuration files such as data service configurations, the steps may vary.
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