This paragraph provides a concise summary of securing Spring Boot applications using YugabyteDB and secret manager services. It explains that security plays a crucial role in software development, particularly when managing sensitive data such as API keys, database credentials, and certificates. To safeguard against unauthorized access, it is essential to securely store and access these sensitive data within the application. YugabyteDB offers advanced security features like Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption, ensuring the protection of Spring Boot applications. Native cloud secret management services like AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Hashicorp Vault enable secure storage and management of sensitive data with access restricted to authorized users. The article guides on how to integrate YugabyteDB with these secret manager services to secure Spring Boot applications. It covers enabling encryption in transit for node-to-node communication, enabling one-way TLS for client-to-database communication, enabling mutual TLS for client-to-database communication, and integrating Spring Boot applications with secret manager services like AWS secrets manager, GCP secret manager, Azure key vault, or Hashicorp vault to access sensitive data securely. The article also discusses how to secure the application using mutual TLS, update provider-specific secret manager services, and customize the Hikari datasource by setting root CA, client key, and client certificate properties in the datasource configuration.