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Secrets Management

Detect Secrets In Microsoft Teams With GitGuardian

GitGuardian can now help you find and remediate secrets exposed in your Microsoft Teams channels. We have extended the real-time detection capability of our secrets detection platform to include the popular communications tooling to help teams better fight secrets sprawl throughout their organizations Once integrated, whenever a plaintext credential is accidentally posted to Teams messages, GitGuardian will create an alert and the incident will appear in your GitGuardian dashboard, allowing you to remediate it like any other leaked secret.

Taming Vault Sprawl with Modern Secrets Management

In this cloud, DevOps and AI era, security teams grapple with the growing challenge of shadow secrets and vault sprawl. As organizations scale, secrets management increasingly fragments. For example, Microsoft recommends using one Azure Key Vault, per application, per environment per region. Without centralized visibility, security policies and rotation control, vault sprawl leads to heightened security risk and compliance challenges.

Finding and fixing exposed hardcoded secrets in your GitHub project with Snyk

Snyk is an excellent tool for spotting project vulnerabilities, including hardcoded secrets. In this blog, we'll show how you can use Snyk to locate hardcoded secrets and credentials and then refactor our code to use Doppler to store those secrets instead. We'll use the open source Snyk goof project as a reference Node.js boilerplate application, so feel free to follow along with us.

New Secrets Management Capabilities: CyberArk Secrets Hub, CyberArk Conjur Cloud, CyberArk Conjur Enterprise, CyberArk Credential Providers

We’re excited about several new Secrets Management capabilities that we announced at IMPACT 24 in Nashville and around the globe on the IMPACT World Tour. These include CyberArk Conjur Cloud support for Self-hosted PAM, CyberArk Secrets Hub support for Google Cloud and dramatic performance improvements for the Credential Providers with Release 14. AWS also demonstrated their new ”Managed By CyberArk“ capability in the AWS Secrets Manger UI.

Lessons Learned About Secrets Protection After the Sisense Breach

Sisense is a popular monitoring tool that enables users to monitor business metrics from multiple third-party sources in a single dashboard. On April 10, the company informed customers that the sensitive information they entrusted with Sisense may have been compromised and urged them to reset their password and rotate their secrets. According to KrebsOnSecurity, the attackers were allegedly able to access GitLab repositories hosted by Sisense, where hard-coded secrets may have been found.

TruffleHog vs. Gitleaks: A Detailed Comparison of Secret Scanning Tools

TruffleHog and Gitleaks are popular secrets scanning tools that can automatically surface hardcoded secrets such as API keys, passwords, and tokens. They can both be integrated into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to proactively scan repositories to identify and rectify potential issues before they can be exploited. The need for effective secret detection tools underscores a broader shift toward more secure software development practices.