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DevOps Exchange London March 2022

Centralising your secrets management platform and Identity Provider is an essential part of adopting a Zero Trust mindset, but one of the biggest challenges facing DevSecOps Engineers and Developers in this new paradigm is how systems and applications can get that initial secret that grants access to the secrets management platform. This is commonly referred to as Secret Zero and can’t be stored in plaintext in the application code due to the high risk of exposure.

March 25, 2022 Read
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HashiConf EU 2021: The Zero Trust Mindset

Learn about how service mesh, identity-based access management, and secrets management can help implement zero trust without increasing development friction.

August 30, 2021 Read
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HashiTalks Global 2020: Securing RabbitMQ with Vault

Learn how to configure a HashiCorp Vault server to help secure access to a RabbitMQ message queue in this talk for HashiTalks conference 2020. As more software architects move their application designs towards microservice architecture and asynchronous event-driven workflows, the use of message queue systems is ever increasing. RabbitMQ is a popular choice of message queue system which is widely used globally. Configuring applications to access such a message queue system without compromising its access credentials in the source code is a challenge that can be solved using Hashicorp Vault as a secrets management platform.

February 22, 2020 Read
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Kafka Summit EU 2021: Encrypting Kafka messages at rest to secure applications

Whilst Kafka has the ability to encrypt data in transit, it does not have the functionality out of the box to encrypt data at rest. This places the responsibility of encryption of data placed on message queues on developers. Implementing cryptography correctly in our applications is challenging and time consuming. In this demo-driven talk, I will show you how you can use HashiCorp Vault’s API to implement a simple workflow that offsets the complexity of cryptography to Vault.

February 22, 2020 Read