Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The explosion of remote work and digital transformation has unleashed a tidal wave of new systems and software. Even smaller or ‘old-school’ companies are juggling more applications than ever before to keep pace with collaboration and automation in the remote age. Yet, every exciting new system requires login credentials, secrets, and access privileges, creating potential entry points for cybercriminals.

Some traditional security methods are no match for evolving cyber threats, which is why zero trust is an essential addition to every organization’s arsenal. Unlike perimeter defenses, zero trust secures access at every level, verifying every device and user continuously to create a security posture that is far harder to penetrate. Gartner reports that 63% of organizations now use a zero trust strategy, a shift driven by the rising costs and frequency of successful breaches.

Storing sensitive values is a problem as old as software itself. In 2016, Uber experienced a massive data breach that exposed 57 million users’ personal information—all traced back to a hardcoded AWS credential discovered in a GitHub repository. While we have successfully established that hardcoding secrets such as API keys and passwords is bad practice, correctly storing them is a different story, and the issues from 2016 are still prevalent today (8 years later…).