Build secure cloud-native applications by avoiding the top five security pitfalls we lay out in our Secure Cloud-native Development Series. This blog is the fifth and final part of the series, and it will teach you to handle credentials and secrets management best practices for securing cloud-native applications. Every organization has their way of managing credentials. In the past, with legacy application architectures, this was a bit more manual and arduous.

In today's digital landscape, the issue of compromised credentials has become a major concern. Discover how renowned companies like Microsoft, VMware, and Sourcegraph were recently confronted with the threats of secrets sprawling.

This tutorial provides an insightful introduction to GCP's Secret Manager and guides you in creating secrets and securing access to secrets within VMs and CI pipelines.

This tutorial details how to manage secrets effectively using Azure Key Vault. You'll learn how to create secrets and access them in both virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters.

Learn more about the various sources of exposed secrets beyond source code repositories. From CI/CD systems to container images, runtime environments to project management tools, uncover the risks associated with storing secrets in these sources.

Secrets management is an art, and mastering it requires a deep understanding of security protocols, meticulous attention to detail, and a proactive approach to staying ahead of threats. In this blog, we present you with eight essential concepts to enhance your credential management strategy.

In today’s software development world, developers rely on numerous types of secrets (credentials), to facilitate seamless interaction between application components. As modern applications become more complex and require authentication for services and dependencies, the practice of hardcoding secrets during software development is on the rise.

Learn how your secrets management can affect your DevOps performance, measured by DORA metrics, as well as increase your risk as an organization.