The State of Secrets Sprawl 2023
For the third year running, GitGuardian presents its State of Secrets Sprawl report, the most extensive analysis of secrets exposed on GitHub and beyond.
Their team of experts scanned and analyzed 1.027B new commits in 2022 (+20% compared to 2021) to uncover the latest trends and identify the most pressing challenges facing developers today.
The main question they seek to answer each year is, "How many new secrets were exposed on GitHub in the preceding year?" The answer is staggering: their analysis reveals 10 million new secrets occurrences were exposed on GitHub in 2022. That's a 67% increase compared to 2021.
Implementing Automated Secrets Detection for Application Security
Dev & Ops teams from large organizations use thousands of secrets like API keys and other credentials in order to interconnect these components together. As a result, they now have access to more sensitive information than companies can keep track of.
The risk is that these secrets are now spreading everywhere. We call “secrets sprawl” the unwanted distribution of secrets in all the systems developers use. Secrets sprawl is even more difficult to control with growing development teams, sometimes spread over multiple geographies. Not even taking into consideration that developers are under hard pressure due to a growing number of technologies to master and shortened release cycles.
In this whitepaper, GitGuardian looks at the implications of secrets sprawl, and presents solutions for Application Security to further secure the SDLC by implementing automated secrets detection in their DevOps pipeline.
Speed Up Your NOC With Automation
This guide is designed for Network Operation Centers (NOC) who’d like to know how they can prevent a lot of “blindsides” and find better more efficient ways to detect, diagnose and act upon their daily network “events”. Download this White Paper by Network Operations Expert Rob Pavone for strategies and solutions on keeping up with your growing network, as new technology continues to be introduced at a faster rate.
Key Points:
- How to implement efficient methods that help make your NOC a less stressful environment.
- Ways to automate tasks and resolve issues on your network with speed (via Case Study) .
- Automation support solutions for the NOC through: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Performance and Capacity Management & Asset and Configuration Management.
- What tools you should be using to support automation solutions for: Performance and Capacity Needs, Compliance Issues & Maintaining Consistency, Using Event Correlation for Events, Diagnose, Troubleshoot, Collect and Report & Using REST API: Auto-open, Populate Incidents.
NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches
This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.
Key Points:
- How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
- Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
- Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
- Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
- Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
- Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
- Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.
A Primer in Root Cause Analysis
In this article I will attempt to outline a general process for troubleshooting network-related events, meaning those issues which directly impact the performance of a computer network or application resulting in a negative impact on user experience. While I will use FirstWave’s Solutions in the examples, these steps can be applied to any collection of NMS tools.
BG Unified Delivers 100% Network Uptime to Clients Using FirstWave
The BG Unified Solutions team consists of experts in different technologies like security, voice, load balancers, WAN, WAN optimization, Cloud, and Cisco Technologies. As experts across different technologies, their focus is to provide competitive, affordable and Unified Solutions to our clients.
BG Unified is a business that is built upon their clients trusting in the services that are delivered, whether that is infrastructure, backup, email, database or platform as a service, Saurabh Sareen (Sunny), BG Unified Solutions Co-Founder and Managing Director, aims for, and delivers, 100% uptime to his clients.
How to Detect, Diagnose, and Fix Issues with Network Bandwidth
Network bandwidth has always been a precious commodity and given our current circumstances with so many people working from home, many companies have not had the bandwidth they need in the right places. This E-book will help you with some strategies on how to detect bandwidth issues, further diagnose those issues, and what actions you can take to relieve those bandwidth issues.
An IT Managers Guide To Network Process Automation
This guide is designed for IT Managers looking to implement Network Process Automation in their organisation.
Key Points:
- Focus on good operational practices.
- Picking the right tasks.
- Handling of common issues through automation.
- Mapping out the automation process.
- Time savings.
- Checklist.
The guide discusses the best approach for change management and team buy-in, provides a methodology framework to use when considering the automation of a manual task in a network environment and the steps to take in order to identify an effective test case for your organization.
Speed Up Your NOC With Automation
This guide is designed for Network Operation Centers (NOC) who’d like to know how they can prevent a lot of “blindsides” and find better more efficient ways to detect, diagnose and act upon their daily network “events”. Download this White Paper by Network Operations Expert Rob Pavone for strategies and solutions on keeping up with your growing network, as new technology continues to be introduced at a faster rate.
Key Points:
- How to implement efficient methods that help make your NOC a less stressful environment.
- Ways to automate tasks and resolve issues on your network with speed (via Case Study) .
- Automation support solutions for the NOC through: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Performance and Capacity Management & Asset and Configuration Management.
- What tools you should be using to support automation solutions for: Performance and Capacity Needs, Compliance Issues & Maintaining Consistency, Using Event Correlation for Events, Diagnose, Troubleshoot, Collect and Report & Using REST API: Auto-open, Populate Incidents.
NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches
This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.
Key Points:
- How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
- Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
- Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
- Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
- Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
- Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
- Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.
A Primer in Root Cause Analysis
In this article I will attempt to outline a general process for troubleshooting network-related events, meaning those issues which directly impact the performance of a computer network or application resulting in a negative impact on user experience. While I will use FirstWave’s Solutions in the examples, these steps can be applied to any collection of NMS tools.
ESG Technical Validation for CyberArk Secrets Manager
This ESG Technical Validation explores CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager, which helps provide secure secrets management for cloud-native, containerized applications and DevOps tools. The report includes results of remote validation of CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager.
Can SaaS Deliver Nirvana for Overtaxed Security Teams?
Developers need, want and deserve simple security solutions that don’t slow them down. But, with each code breach and supply chain attack security teams find it increasingly imperative to secure the credentials and secrets used by all applications to access resources. It doesn’t get any easier when security teams face resource challenges and skills gaps. But are innovative SaaS based secrets management solutions the answer for overtaxed security teams?
In this webinar we will explore:
- How SaaS based secret management solutions can deliver on their promise of increased simplicity for developers and for security and operations teams.
- Approaches for giving developers a native experience with solution such as Kubernetes Secrets and AWS Secrets Manager while giving security teams centralized management, rotation, and control of secrets.
- Demos of new SaaS based solutions from CyberArk which get closer to delivering nirvana to developers and security teams.
Securing Application Identities: CyberArk Success Stories
For years, security teams have trusted CyberArk to help them secure human credentials with privileged access management (PAM) solutions. But non-human identities have exploded thanks to digital transformation efforts like cloud migration, adoption of DevOps methodologies and introduction of automation processes. In fact, a survey report from CyberArk found that machine identities now outnumber human identities by a factor of 45x.
This collection of customer stories explores how some of our current customers have used CyberArk Secrets Manager to help them secure secrets across a wide variety of application types — from DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines to RPA workloads and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) applications and everything in between. Check out these stories to learn more about how real-world security teams are securing their application identities across their enterprise.
The CISO Mandate: Accelerate Securing All Application Identities
Increasingly, executives are asking their security teams to secure all application secrets – everywhere across their entire organization. A potentially daunting task.
Where do security teams begin? This eBook outlines a practical systematic approach and blueprint for organizations to take to enhance the security of their entire application portfolio. It addresses applications of all types from zOS and COTS, to Kubernetes.
Note, while focused on securing credentials used by applications, it leverages CyberArk’s holistic blueprint and methodology for securing the credentials used by both human users as well as applications and other non-human identities.
