Honeytokens or Canary tokens are decoy credentials that alert you when an intruder or hacker is trying to use them. This will alert you to their existence in your infrastructure! They are easy early warning systems. Here is a quick video explanation.

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of exchanging with Ezequiel Rabinovich, Lemontech's CTO, about how his teams use GitGuardian to protect their repositories. Lemontech is a company developing software for the legal industry based in Santiago, Chile. It serves more than 1,300 customers in Latin America. Ezequiel supervises a team of about 30 developers and 4 DevOps engineers for approximately 150 employees. They use GitHub for source control management, and their organization has 350 repos, 130 of which are active.

At GitGuardian, we work with customers of all sizes, some with many dozens of AppSec team members supporting tens of thousands of developers. The larger and more sophisticated the organization, the more they rely on Role-based Access Management to best administer user permissions. On the GitGuarian platform, we call this feature Teams. Sign up for a free trial of the business plan today to see how Teams can improve your remediation workflow.

At GitGuardian, we know that time can be a critical factor when any incident involving secrets occurs. That's why our platform allows you to quickly and easily automate parts of your incident response. We call these automations "Playbooks". Our Auto-access granting playbook grants the right access to the right developers so they can work on the issue as soon as possible.

In 2022, we scanned a staggering 1.027 billion GitHub commits! How many secrets do you think we found? For the 3rd year in a row, I am excited to share with you the findings of The State of Secrets Sprawl! This report from my team at GitGuardian is the most extensive analysis of secrets exposed in GitHub and beyond!

Manual severity assignment requires a case-by-case examination of your open incidents and can be time-consuming for your teams. GitGuardian's severity scoring feature automates this approach, where and when applicable, to the incidents in your workspace so that you can save time on their triaging and prioritization. Automated severity scoring comes in handy after running a historical scan on your perimeter that surfaces hundreds or thousands of incidents. It can help you focus your remediation efforts on the most critical incidents first!

In this video, we explore how to securely manage secrets like API keys, passwords, credential pairs, and other sensitive information in python. We run through the basics of using environment variables and move onto more advanced senarios such as managing different secrets for multiple environments.

Ransomware is not new, it has been around for more than 30 years but it has changed a lot over the years. This is a snippet from a full webinar on Ransomware with Grzegorz Bak that dives into the most alarming statistics of ransomware and how we can protect ourselves against it. This presentation is thanks to GitProtect which helps make sure your code assets are securely backed up easily.

This is a brief overview of the components that make up the architecture behind a Kubernetes cluster with an explanation of what each one does. This is part of a longer webinar with guest expert Tiexin Guo that explains best security practices to harden your Kubernetes clusters.

The cloud revolution has taken the world, and programming languages, by storm! In 2022, HCL, the HashiCorp Configuration Language, driven by the popularity of Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, became the #1 fastest-growing language on GitHub! Who would’ve expected that ten years ago?!