As many organizations migrate to the public cloud, a major concern has been how to best secure data, preventing it from unauthorized access or exfiltration. Deploying a product like HashiCorp Vault gives you better control of your sensitive credentials and helps you meet cloud security standards.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses have faced uncertainty regarding the future. While some companies had to close down temporarily, others were able to move toward a remote workforce. By mid-April of 2020, the number of employed adults saying they began working remotely peaked at 62%. While this number will inevitably go down once the pandemic passes, it certainly seems like remote work has become more commonplace.

Monitoring and compliance are, in many ways, synonymous. At the very least, there’s a big overlap in terms of defining and monitoring rulesets you care about. The time frame may vary; with monitoring, you might jump on an alert right away, as opposed to the compliance team’s quarterly audit, but the foundation remains the same. As our development cycles grow ever more dynamic, the need for automating repetitive tasks becomes all the more important.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of people say they don’t like working with security teams. Security teams often have ridiculous requirements, and it can be painful for everyone when releases get delayed. I’ve been guilty of thinking the same thing, so when I was approached at my job at Doximity to build a security team (without prior experience doing so), I knew I wanted to take a different approach.