John Morton is Field CTO at Britive, cloud-native identity and access management platform. He’s a seasoned cybersecurity defender, learn-by-doing enthusiast, and hacking tinkerer. Accomplishments include numerous vendor technical sales MVP awards, and US Navy submarine service veteran.
The practice of hardcoding secrets—such as authentication credentials, passwords, API tokens and SSH Keys—as non-encrypted plain text into source code or scripts has been common in software development for many years. It ...