# Postman Passport

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## How Postman Passport keeps API secrets inside your network

DevFeed: [How Postman Passport keeps API secrets inside your network](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-postman-passport-keeps-api-secrets-inside-your-network-12637.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.postman.com/how-postman-passport-keeps-api-secrets-inside-your-network/>)

Author: Talia Kohan

Published: 2026-08-24T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Postman Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/postman-blog.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Postman](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postman.md>), [API keys](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api-keys.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [api-keys](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-keys.md>), [api-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-security.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [general](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/general.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [postman-passport](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postman-passport.md>), [secret-store](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secret-store.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>), [secrets-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets-management.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [token](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/token.md>)

### AI overview

Postman Passport keeps real API secrets inside an organization's network by issuing credential references instead of exposing underlying keys. An internal proxy resolves the references, injects the credentials, and forwards requests while cryptographically binding references to their authorized holders.

### Source excerpt

Postman Passport grants API access using credential references, keeping the real secret inside your network. Here's how the architecture works. The post How Postman Passport keeps API secrets inside your network appeared first on Postman Blog.