# Security in Secrets Manager

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## Mitigate the risks of using the AWS CLI to store your AWS Secrets Manager secrets

* **Important**\
  By default, you can't perform an equivalent technique in Windows unless you first reduce the size of the command history buffer to **1**.

## Secret encryption and decryption

* **Note**\
  In the past, Secrets Manager validation requests did not include an encryption context. You might find calls with no encryption context in older AWS CloudTrail logs.