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Secrets Management

Add GitGuardian Secrets Detection To Jira Cloud

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.

Why Your Organization Needs Dynamic Secrets and Rotation

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.

Six Best Practices for Secrets Management

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.

Secrets Management vs Secrets Detection: Here's What You Need to Know

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.

Using Vanta and AWS for secrets management and encryption

This blog is part of a series about how to use Vanta and AWS to simplify your organization’s cloud security. To learn more about how to use Vanta and AWS, watch our Coffee and Compliance on-demand webinar. ‍ Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is one of the most popular cloud providers for organizations today — providing one of the most flexible and secure cloud environments available.