Techniques are provided to manage security artifacts. Specifically, a security management system is disclosed for implementing security artifact archives to manage security artifacts. A security artifact archive may include information for managing one or more security artifacts that can be referenced or included in the security artifact archive. The security management system can create, edit, read, send, and perform other management operations for security artifact archives. Objects can be bundled in an object-specific security artifact archive. Security artifact archives may be named, versioned, tagged and/or labeled for identification. Security artifact archives may be transmitted to a destination (e.g., a service provider or a client system) that provides access to an object whose access is dependent on security artifacts. The destination may can manage access to the object using a security artifact archive that includes relevant and current security artifacts for the object.