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.

When it comes to building a comprehensive data security strategy, everything hinges on finding and accurately classifying all your sensitive data. It seems security professionals have finally given up on legacy solutions that require extensive labeling and manual data mapping — and not a moment too soon. We're confident no one will mourn the passing of legacy solutions.

These days, your organization's data is its most valuable asset. But what happens when that data slips through your fingers? Picture this: It's Friday afternoon, and your security team receives an alert about an unusual number of downloads from your cloud storage app, Google Drive. As you investigate, you realize it's corporate IP that's being downloaded en masse by a departing employee. This type of exfiltration incident isn't just hypothetical; it's a reality that organizations face on the daily.