GUEST OPINION by Grant Orchard, Field CTO APJ HashiCorp: Secrets. It’s a word that never fails to dredge memories from my past. Vivid flashes of schoolyard crushes, the whispers of confidence shared. As humans, part of building relationships is demonstrating vulnerability with each other. We share little pieces of ourselves and, as we build intimacy, ever larger pieces. We exchange secrets, and trust is born.
GUEST RESEARCH: Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, today announced that its security research team, Aqua Nautilus, discovered 250 million artifacts and 65,600 container images that were exposed via thousands of misconfigured container images, Red Hat Quay registries, JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus artifact registries.
COMPANY NEWS: GitGuardian today announced the results of its 2022 State of Secrets Sprawl report. Leveraging the company's unique position as the world's leading secret detection platform, the report extends its previous edition focused on public GitHub by depicting a realistic view of the state of secrets sprawl in corporate codebases.
Cloud identity specialist ThycoticCentrify has updated its Secret Server privileged access management product with new security controls, automation and design updates.
Security vendor CyberArk has released an open-source version of its Conjur secrets management software.
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