A credential vault is a storage location for shared accounts and resource credentials such as, user IDs and passwords. Privileged Access Manager uses the Enterprise Credential Vault database to manage and secure details and credentials of various domains. This solution helps you not to rely on a third party component for database as credential vault supports embedded database. A privileged user can use these credentials to connect to the endpoints such as systems, databases, and applications. You can encrypt this database. By default, the credentials are securely stored in an encrypted form. On the home page of the console, click Credential Vault to view all the credentials of the resources available in Privileged Access Manager.