Inspect & protect distributed environments with HCP Vault Radar
Secret scanning is an important piece of the overall secrets management solution.
When companies first dip their toes into secret / credential scanning, they think the worst number of unsecured secrets that they could find might be 500. What you actually might find is 5,000.
Personally identifiable information (PII) is also something that could be sitting out in your code, completely exposed in plaintext.
»The 3 P’s of secret scanning
A scanner should have three main areas of focus:
»Proliferation
Scan a variety of developer tools and other code or text sources across cloud services and on-prem tools
»Prioritization
Scanning should infer several data points about secrets in order to prioritize them and prevent alerts on low-risk secrets or false positives.
»Prevention
Scan pull requests before they are deployed to prevent secret exposure from happening at all.
»HashiCorp Vault Radar
The video below introduces HashiCorp Vault Radar and shows how it checks all three of these boxes.
When choosing a secret scanner, the question isn’t about just finding a secret scanning tool that can find all these secrets and then leave the teams to figure out the fix for themselves, it's about finding a more well-rounded secrets management platform that includes secret scanning capabilities. The core of the solution should be to find, audit, manage, and remediate exposed secrets (i.e. fix the problem).
That’s why instead of having a tool for secrets management and a separate tool for secret scanning, and other tools for scanning and auditing every security issue under the sun; your focus should be on who offers the most complete, all-inclusive feature set for secrets management and scanning.
Why not pick a secrets management solution that has set the industry best practices around this discipline and proven to be the most popular solution, trusted by thousands of customers?
Check out HashiCorp Vault Radar yourself by starting with this introductory session:
