Microsoft recently released a very useful SecretManagement PowerShell module. You can use it to securely store and use saved passwords (secrets) in your PowerShell scripts. The module consists of two components: a SecretStore vault (a default password store), and a SecretManagement (engine to access different password vaults). Both the built-in SecretStore vault and third-party secret vaults (like KeePass, LastPass, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, Bitwarden, Windows Credential Manager, etc.) are supported. Using SecretManagement, you can save any passwords (credentials) to the secret vault and retrieve them at any time. You can also store license keys, access keys, and other sensitive information (Hashtable, Byte, String, SecureString, and PSCredential object types are supported).
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