Your company will automate server deployments to Azure and you must avoid exposing administrative credentials during deployment. Which Azure solution should you recommend to encrypt those administrative credentials during deployment?

Azure Key Vault is the correct choice because it is designed to securely store and manage secrets, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive administrative credentials. By storing credentials in Key Vault, you can automate deployments without embedding sensitive information directly into scripts or configuration files, enhancing security. Azure Information Protection focuses on classifying and protecting documents and emails, not storing deployment credentials. Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides cloud security posture management and threat protection, which is a different security domain. Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) adds an extra layer of identity verification for user logins, but it doesn't store or encrypt credentials for automated processes.