Oracle Exam 1Z0-1104-23 Topic 1 Question 4 Discussion

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vaultis a managed service that lets you centrally manage the encryption keysthat protect your data and the secret credentials that you use to securely access resources. Vaults securely store master encryption keys and secrets that you might otherwise store in configuration files or in code. Specifically, depending on the protection mode, keys are either stored on the server or they are stored on highly available and durable hardware security modules (HSM) that meet Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Security Level 3 security certification.

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/KeyManagement/Concepts/keyoverview.htm