Tag: Secrets
The Scanner We Really Need
IT has scanners for everything. And by everything, I mean everything. We scan source code for vulnerabilities and data leaks. We scan apps for vulnerabilities. We scan the network for holes. We ...
Managing Hardcoded Secrets to Shrink Your Attack Surface
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 ...
It is Time to Secure Git
At this point, we’ve got a ton of experience with the bits of Git that we use. And locking down Git is well-documented. Okay, it is documented; we can say that, at ...
DevOps Teams Struggling to Keep Secrets
A growing number of organizations are suffering security incidents related to exposed secrets in DevOps CI/CD pipelines, according to a recent ThycoticCentrify report. The study paints a troubling picture: Only 5% of ...
Don’t Look at This! IT’S A SECRET!
To continue the discussion about secrets after perusing this excellent report by GitGuardian—last time I went a little nuts about the number of secrets exposed in IT folks' personal repositories. And it ...
