--- title: Your appsettings.json Is a Compliance Violation — Daily... description: Storing secrets in appsettings.json violates ISO/IEC 27017 controls CLD 10.1.2, A.10.1.1, and A.10.1.2, exposing organizations to audit failures and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-appsettings-json-is-a-compliance-violation-daily-devops-net-pvlbvebeh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your appsettings.json Is a Compliance Violation — Daily DevOps & .NET | daily.dev og:description: Storing secrets in appsettings.json violates ISO/IEC 27017 controls CLD 10.1.2, A.10.1.1, and A.10.1.2, exposing organizations to audit failures and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-appsettings-json-is-a-compliance-violation-daily-devops-net-pvlbvebeh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pVLbvEbEH.png og:image:alt: Your appsettings.json Is a Compliance Violation — Daily DevOps & .NET og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your appsettings.json Is a Compliance Violation — Daily DevOps & .NET **[Daily DevOps & .NET](https://daily.dev/sources/dailydevopsnet)** · [@samtrion](https://daily.dev/samtrion) · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Storing secrets in appsettings.json violates ISO/IEC 27017 controls CLD 10.1.2, A.10.1.1, and A.10.1.2, exposing organizations to audit failures and contractual penalties. The post walks through the compliant alternative for .NET Azure applications: using Azure Key Vault with Managed Identity and DefaultAzureCredential, implementing least-privilege RBAC roles, enabling soft-delete and purge protection for lifecycle management, securing CI/CD pipelines with OIDC instead of long-lived service principal secrets, and automating secret rotation with monitoring for secrets that cannot be auto-rotated. The core argument is that secrets require dedicated infrastructure with access controls, audit trails, and rotation policies — not configuration files. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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