Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Identify the secrets that make your cloud environment more vulnerable to an attack

Compromised secrets, such as leaked API and SSH keys, credentials, and session tokens, are the leading cause of cloud security incidents. While attackers can directly compromise secrets through methods like phishing, they can also gain control by finding and taking advantage of simple misconfigurations in your environment.

How To Prevent Secrets Sprawl

Where are your credentials and secrets, and how are you protecting them? These are fair questions, considering the pervasiveness of secrets sprawl. We recently conducted research over 12 months to determine where enterprises’ secrets were residing within their systems, like GitHub, Confluence, Zendesk and Slack. In addition to API keys and passwords, secrets like SSL certificates, usernames and others are spilling into enterprises’ cloud environments and increasing the risk of a breach.

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.

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.