In honor of World Password Day, we’re doing our part to help keep your business secure by discussing the good, the bad, the ugly and the critical about passwords. Let’s face it: between all the logins we need for work and all the accounts we use in our personal lives, there are too many passwords to remember. So many of us do what seems natural—use the same password for multiple accounts.

Attack vectors are defined as the means or paths by which hackers gain access to computers remotely with malicious intentions such as delivering payloads or carrying out other harmful activities. Some common ones are malware, social engineering, phishing and remote exploits.

Snyk’s mission is to empower developers and DevOps teams to secure their applications. As part of that security mission, Snyk offers a Free plan for Snyk Open Source, Snyk Container, and Snyk Infrastructure as Code, so all developers can code securely. Today, we’re excited to announce that Snyk Code is now available for free as well.

Best practices for securing an AWS environment have been well-documented and generally accepted, such as AWS’s guidance. However, organizations may still find it challenging on how to begin applying this guidance to their specific environments. In this blog series, we’ll analyze anonymized data from Netskope customers that include security settings of 650,000 entities from 1,143 AWS accounts across several hundred organizations.