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.

There are many ways bad actors try to infiltrate and exploit companies, including by gaining access to your internal network and the applications connected to it. With more organizations adopting products in the cloud, or at the very least connected to the internet, addressing this potential attack vector is an important element of any security strategy.

Atlassian has long been helping agile teams collaborate, track progress, and manage projects more efficiently, and is now simplifying software security for Jira Software Cloud users. We’re excited to announce that JFrog has joined Atlassian as a security partner.