Archive for the ‘DevSecOps’ Category

HashiCorp Vault VS Akeyless Vault Platform (2023)

Since we provide a variety of secrets management solutions, we’re frequently asked about the differences between HashiCorp Vault and Akeyless Vault platform – so here it is! We made a comparison sheet including more than 10 criteria: Platform; technology; infrastructures; maintenance; required skills; security aspects; high availability (HA) ; user interface (UI) ; Multi-cloud; supporting […]

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How to Prevent Data Leaks if Hackers Get Access to your Database?

Every week we hear about the latest website to get hacked, and hackers getting access to another database with consumers’ personal data inside. Just in the last weeks there have been numerous reports of hacking, including stealing the medical records of 290,000 patients of the “Mor Medical Institute,” and releasing data of 1 million subscribers […]

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GitLab CI and Akeyless Vault Integration

You can use Akeyless Vault secret management within GitLab and GitLab CI. Code placed in GitLab or GitLab CI/CD requires secrets in order to properly execute access to various resources. By integrating GitLab CI with Akeyless Vault, you would not need to keep hard coded secrets within the GitLab code repo such as username & […]

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GitLab and Log4J Vulnerability

Concerning the reported Log4J vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), you should know that GitLab does not use Log4j or Log4j2 packages. GitLab was written using Ruby, JS and Go so it uses different log libraries. If you use GitLab Advance Search or Code Search features (available in paid edition including Premium, Ultimate and Starter) you should know it […]

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Vault HCP Cloud VS Vault Enterprise

As you probably know, a few months ago HashiCorp started offering the popular Vault product as a managed service in the cloud (known as “Vault HCP” or Vault Cloud), until then this had  only been offered as an on-premises product – Vault OSS and Vault Enterprise. We recently (in response to questions from our customers) […]

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Learn More About Git Submodules

Last update: 2/27/2022 In this article, we want to tell you how to control versions of complex systems using git submodules. Let’s have a look at the following imaginary example.  Our company has developed a system named Car, which consisted of 3 subsystems: Motor, Steering, and Transmission. Each subsystem has been developed in a separate […]

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New: CI Module for “The Shield” application to improve its Code Security and Fight Coronavirus

To encourage downloads of the ‘Shield’ app that fights coronavirus, we have built a complementary Continuous Integration (CI) solution and code scanners to improve information security, code security and privacy of the app. We also invite the developers to use it freely and continuously in future. A few days ago, the Israeli Ministry of Health […]

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New Video: GitLab CI/CD Demo

I am happy to share a GitLab CI/CD video that is concise, technical and up-to-date. I have chosen this video as the best of several videos that I have recently watched. At your convenience, we have added subtitles, a summary of the video and the transcription of the video. You can watch the video and […]

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Join our upcoming HashiCorp Vault Webinar

Next week we are hosting a HashiCorp employee to discuss different aspects of using Vault effectively. Webinar is free of charge. Introducing Vault ; Integration with OpenShift and “Ask Me Anything” (July 31st 11AM CET) We are hosting Lieuwe Helmus, Senior Solution Engineer in HashiCorp Company, to discuss about Vault, integration with OpenShift and give you the chance to […]

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How GitLab and Kubernetes Work Together

GitLab is considered a breakthrough tool not just as a version control and CI tool – but also as a strong CD (Continuous Deployment) tool, especially if you work with containers (such as Docker) and Kubernetes. To demonstrate these benefits of GitLab,we have collected 7 selected videos that were released in the past year. They […]

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