Credentials

Database sprawl is a lot like expanding into the suburbs: your house may be empty at first, but before you know it, you’re having to stuff things into your attic.

Modern infrastructure challenges range from new regulations to secrets management. See how Better’s CISO is tackling these challenges.

Zombie accounts: forgotten accounts that open the door to bad actors looking to insert malware, steal data, and damage your internal systems. Even though you may already use Privileged Access Management (PAM) to safeguard your most sensitive accounts, the credential management techniques below will expand on PAM to help you detect zombie credentials--and prevent them from wreaking havoc in your organization.

It’s easy to assume that individuals with privileged access will inherently do the right thing, or simply know what they’re doing when accessing systems. That isn’t always the case. Similarly, how often do you check in on your systems with privileged access to understand what they're up to?

You’re moving to the cloud, but your PAM solution won’t migrate. Everyone needs access. It’s time to rethink your access management strategy.

Infrastructure and DevOps administrators face significant barriers in managing Secure Shell (SSH) keys. In this article, we’ll explore the complexities of SSH key management. We’ll also show how to effectively authenticate users without having to manage SSH keys for individual users.

An explanation of role-based access control (RBAC) in Kubernetes, why it is hard to manage manually and practical strategies for simplifying RBAC in large-scale clusters.

Gone are the days of sharing AWS root account credentials in a shared 1Password vault or worse, via email. With this in mind, one of the first steps to securing our AWS account is setting up AWS IAM.

Managing RBAC in a way that’s suitable to the size of your company is confusing and overwhelming. Before speeding to implementing policy, it’s worth figuring out what problems RBAC is actually trying to solve.

Listen to CEO Liz Zalman give opening remarks at the 2019 DevSecOps conference!

There are a number of ways to automate user provisioning but the real challenge lies in keeping track of those credentials.

Cat Cai is currently the Director of Platform Engineering at Fair. In this talk, alongside Jack Wink and Marshall Brekka, they discuss how Fair eliminated static credentials through automation and tooling decisions. Listen as they walk through how they make sure they enforce least privileged access, and rotate credentials without causing a huge headache in the organization.