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As customers, we can be a bit demanding when it comes to technology products. We want the latest products, features – or the most recent versions of those. We’re not stuck for choice though. Rather, our menu of technology products is always growing. These days, companies are all racing to push out products to satisfy our digital hunger. In fact, research conducted by Google highlighted that elite performing organizations deploy software updates to their end-users, on average, multiple times per day and on the lower end of that up to between once a month and between every six months.
However, a combination of the rapid delivery of software, onset of digital transformation – which shifts software development practices online – and poor security practices, have increased the likelihood of sensitive technical data, such as code, technical credentials, and data storage solutions (to name a few), to be exposed online:
Though these risks stem from software development practices, managing this exposure tends to fall under the security teams remit – unfair right? Almost like when a sibling makes a mess and you have to tidy it up – sigh.
Tracking technical leakage exposure can be challenging, especially when lacking visibility of where these assets lie and internal resources. To manage and mitigate technical leakage on your behalf, Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest), from today, releases the new ‘unauthorized commit alert’ service within SearchLight, which identifies unauthorized commits to public code repositories emanating from collaborative software development tools.
In this blog, Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest) will provide an overview of this new capability.
One of the biggest challenges of software development is when secrets become exposed by developers. Secrets, in software terms, are forms of digital authentication, such as passwords, API, access keys, and more. Much like our passwords may be stored in an online password vault, secrets have their filing systems: code repositories. While most code repositories are private, cases have emerged whereby secrets have been exposed to public repositories, meaning those crown jewels are fully accessible to everyone.
Researchers at North Carolina State University found “that not only is secret leakage pervasive — affecting over 100,000 repositories — but that thousands of new, unique secrets, identified as AP and cryptographic keys, are leaked on GitHub at a rate of thousands per day.” Further highlighting how exposure on code repositories, such as GitHub, was a growing concern raised by users on Twitter highlighting how passwords could be searched across GitHub – imploring GitHub to introduce new features, instantly, to address such exposure.
Separately, In 2018, an attacker located an AWS credential within code in a private repository for Uber Engineers on Github. Though the repository was private, it is thought that the attacker either brute forced or password guessed the credentials – allowing them access to the app’s databases, stealing personal information on 57 million passengers and drivers – information including names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Ensuring data is protected doesn’t just mean the databases aren’t publicly available – but that the access to it has sufficient authentication practices in place too.
Employees can inadvertently commit sensitive technical data to public repositories, especially if there is no guidance from internal security policies or education from the business on what should or shouldn’t be shared. Examples of sensitive data that could be inadvertently leaked are:
If companies can monitor their employees’ corporate activity on public code repos, then they can preemptively educate them on potential leakage, with the aim to avoid serious technical leakage events in the future.
In addition to monitoring for code exposure or secrets across public repositories, organizations can now track, with the “unauthorized commit alert”, their employees’ corporate activity on public code repositories. Identifying whether employees have unintentionally committed to a repository, provides organizations with a quick, scalable way to preemptively catch leakage before it becomes a serious threat.
Like everything, software development is currently affected by the forces of digital transformation, which blurs network perimeters, meaning data is increasingly likely to be exposed online. On top of that, the nature of the software development industry, which demands rapid deliveries and multiple stakeholders working together on collaborative tools, has also increased the likelihood of sensitive data to be exposed publicly. To prevent the exposure of software online and to minimize threats to software, Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest) recommends the following:
To learn more, please check out the resources below or our new web page, Technical Leakage Detection.