Unf*#k
your secrets
Secrets sprawl is the smoke before the fire. Here's the TLDR you never knew you needed but always deserved.
What are secrets?
Secrets are passwords for your code and infrastructure, typically used to authenticate to databases and SaaS services. It's almost impossible to build software applications without them. They often take many forms:
Why do secrets matter?
Unlike human passwords which grant access to an individual user's account, secrets often grant access to an entire organization's services. Most services enable developers to fully manage their offering through code and APIs accessed through secrets.
Most companies have a database, payment processor, and cloud infrastructure provider. Here are a couple of examples to bring the point home:
- Database URL typically grants access to the entire database
- API Key for a payment processor like Stripe which has manage permissions to all customer credit cards, banks, transactions, invoices, etc
- Service Account Key with a cloud provider such as AWS can have direct access to all of your production infrastructure
In the wrong hands, the damage a single secret can enact is enormous as the data and actions it unlocks impact not only the company but its customers. Highly sophisticated attackers will attempt to leverage one compromised system to gain access to others, exponentially compounding your exposure.
Do we have a sprawl problem?
Secrets are the literal keys to your data kingdom. It's critical your organization is able to answer these questions. If not, you have likely found a severe sprawl problem increasing your risk exposure every day it persists.
What's my risk exposure?
Drag the slider to guesstimate your number of secrets at risk by inputting your number of internal services, repositories, codebases, and/or projects.
How many software engineers on average work on a project?
Development, staging, and production
Average number of secrets per environment based on Doppler data.
Estimated count of at-risk secrets that are actively being used by your engineering team and infrastructure.
A malicious actor only needs one.
What are the risks of a breach?
Companies are required by law to notify their customers after a breach, often leading to compounding events that are difficult to recover from.
Users trust the services they use with their data. When that data is lost or leaked, it can irrevocably break their trust.
Customers pick the services they trust. When trust is lost, they often quickly find and switch to an alternative.
Mounting costs from legal and public relations, to indemnity payouts and insurance premiums can break your financial projections.
Security teams need to reissue all secrets after a breach. Doing this manually often takes multiple months and service downtime.
Regulatory committees tasked with protecting it's citizens actively track high profile breaches and will take action when needed.
Lacking proper secrets management may be consider negligence, opening the company up to litigation or even a class action lawsuit.
Meet Doppler
The developer-first security platform that empowers teams to seamlessly manage, orchestrate, and govern secrets at scale. It's maintenance-free and seamlessly integrates with your infrastructure via our 50+ integrations.
Securely store all secrets in an encrypted, centralized vault. Ensure protection and eliminate scattered storage risks.
Enforce the principal of least privilege at scale by creating fine-grained access controls that meet your unique requirements.
Doppler seamlessly integrates into diverse tech stacks, major cloud providers, CI/CD platforms, and version control systems.
Instantaneously revoke access in lockstep with your identity provider for users and groups across all devices.
Quickly invalidate compromised credentials across all environments and infrastructure to stop the spread of the fire.
Now let's unf*#k your secrets together
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