The State of Secrets Sprawl 2024 report by GitGuardian uncovers a 28% increase in leaked secrets on GitHub, revealing an urgent need for significantly improved security practices.
If you are using Jira Cloud for issue-tracking and project management, we have some great news! GitGuardian can now help you find and remediate any plaintext secrets found inside your Jira Cloud instance, You can now rely on GitGuardian's real-time secrets detection to find credentials - shared in Jira ticket descriptions, comments, or even titles. Integrating Jira Cloud with GitGuardian is simple, but does requires a Business or Enterprise plan.
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations confront a formidable array of cyber threats, with attacks and data breaches becoming increasingly prevalent. As businesses embrace transformative technologies such as AI, automation, cloud-native architectures, microservices and containerization, the proliferation of machine identities has surged, often surpassing human identities.
A secret refers to the non-human privileged credentials used by systems and applications to access services and IT resources containing highly sensitive information and privileged systems. Secrets allow applications to transmit data and request services from each other. Examples of secrets include access tokens, SSH keys, non-human privileged account credentials, cryptographic keys and API keys.
Learn why storing secrets in mobile apps is a major security risk, how to manage user and developer secrets properly, and why client-side secrecy is impossible. Find out the best practices for securing mobile app secrets and protecting your data.
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Explore security findings from Datadog's research into recent attacks, highlighting two sophisticated attack methods and vital lessons in secrets security.
As the name might imply, it’s important to keep secrets secret. Access to even the smallest of secrets can open a window for attackers who can then escalate their access to other parts of the system, allowing them to find more important secrets along the way. Poor practices can leave many secrets lying around unprotected and just one seemingly unimportant secret can lead to a broad security breach.
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