Rotating Secrets At Scale, Automatically, and With High Availability - Kenton McDonough

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Dwayne McDaniel - Developer advocate at Gitguardian

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In this episode of The Security Repo Podcast, we take a look at how to do secret rotation reliably in a highly available system. We are joined by Kenton McDonough. Kent got his MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2021 with a focus on systems and networking. He currently does security automation for Viasat Inc, a global Satellite internet service provider, with an emphasis on credential management and RBAC systems. We walk through the tech stack that Kent works with, which includes a little of everything. We revisit his talk topic at BSides as Vegas 2024 with a discussion of 'blue/green' secrets rotation. By the end, we uncover some best practices to keep in mind when architecting a scalable, highly available application with regard to secrets management. Links shared in the episode: kent07[at]bt.edu
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