How to protect your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) secrets
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) may be the smallest major cloud, but it’s one of the fastest growing thanks to its close association with Kubernetes and the company’s liberal habit of giving startups free usage credits. GCP’s default configuration and policies offer substantial security for applications running on GCP infrastructure, but ... Read More
BluBracket open-sources secret, PII, and non-inclusive language scanning tools for S3 objects, Confluence wiki pages, and more…
Enormous volumes of data from private repos, internal chats, private S3 buckets, databases, internal docs, and more have all been exposed recently. For us, the problem is clear: the only safe place to hide a secret is in an encrypted vault. Our core product is the market leader in securing ... Read More
BluBracket’s new filtering experience cuts through the noise
When BluBracket launched we were focused on being the best tool to find risks in code and related to code—as we describe it: what’s in your code, who has access, and where it’s going. But our work with companies ranging from nimble five-person startups to enterprises at the top of ... Read More
Your source code will leak, here’s what hackers are looking for
The biggest news of the spring season so far has been of a slap, a hostile takeover bid, a devastating series of source code dumps by a heretofore unknown hacking group, and now a hacked batch of OAuth tokens leading to yet more source code leaks. Of all of those, ... Read More
Introducing improved risk detail display and management workflows
Today we’re introducing improved risk details display and workflows in BluBracket Code Security. Our early testers have described these as a huge improvement in their ability to quickly and efficiently review and act on risks. We developed these improvements in collaboration with our design partners, with feedback from our enterprise ... Read More
Lessons from the Twitch leak
Last week Twitch faced the kind of nightmare scenario that every online service hopes to avoid: their source code and database dumps were leaked on the internet and broadly distributed. Database dumps exposed details about their business, everything from user complaints to streamer payouts. And the source code uncovered the ... Read More
How Bill Gates saved Microsoft 20 years ago
Before his career as a philanthropist, Bill Gates was the founder and head of Microsoft who became as famous for his relentless pursuit of growth as he had for inventing the commercial software market with MS-DOS. By 2001, Microsoft Windows-powered over 97% of computers. Internet Explorer 6 was winning the ... Read More
