
It’s impossible to make an organization 100% impenetrable. You may have all the right security policies and tools. But, no matter how quickly you shore up your defenses, cyber criminals just keep getting faster. To avoid becoming the next victim of a cyber attack, you just need to outrun the guy next to you. That’s…
As more enterprises adopt DevSecOps, success stories keep piling up. The latest comes from CyberEdge Group in its 2021 Cyberthreat Defense Report. According to their survey of DevSecOps organizations: 45.8% deploy applications more quickly 47.2% deploy updates more quickly 38.5% reduce costs 38.3% reduce app security vulnerabilities What secrets do these organizations know that others…
The traditional “vault-and-forward” method for secrets management means a user or application authenticates to the vault and then gets access to the secrets they need. The fundamental problem is once those secrets are out of the vault, it is extremely difficult to ensure their safety. In the case of an application, the ways Secrets can…
For DevOps teams, on-demand access to source code, tools, test servers, and production builds are necessary to administer systems and debug production issues. The focus for DevOps security should be automation It’s common to share private keys and credentials for immediate access, which increases the risk from both external and insider threats, either malicious or…
Back in July of 2019, Thycotic released DevOps Secrets Vault, a high-velocity vault for high-speed password and secret creation, archiving, and retrieval. Each month we roll out improvements to this cloud-based tool. In 2020, we’ve been focused on adding dynamic secrets for key cloud platforms. For infrastructure-as-a-service platforms dynamic secrets in DevOps Secrets Vault offer…
We’ve discussed how DevOps and robotic process automation (RPA) are changing the game in previous blogs. We’re seeing steady growth in requests from our customers to integrate with more and more types of technology solutions, including DevOps and RPA. For DevOps, we’ve seen it mature to a point where most high-velocity organizations running on modern…
Most advances in DevOps today are being leveraged for speed. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is driven by the need to meet internal demands, meet customer demands, and adapt to the competition. However, as the headlines constantly remind us, security can’t be overlooked in our rush to deploy. No matter where your organization is…
When Bank United’s Anne Gorman first tried to inventory her company’s service accounts, she was flying blind. “We didn’t know how many service accounts we had. We didn’t know where the service accounts were. Nobody even knew the passwords to think about what the service accounts ran. It was a hot mess,” Anne admits. Bank United’s struggle with privileged…
You’re facing unprecedented pressure to deliver higher levels of service and improve speed to market. At the same time, you need enterprise-wide visibility and control to reduce risk. Do you need a high-speed password vault to protect privileged accounts? If so, how fast is fast enough? These are the questions we’ve been asking to develop…