As a company that has supported open source software tools since 2016, I’m happy to update that we have recently expanded the range of tools we support, and we now offer a wider range of supported tools. We also offer support for the following open source tools (click to see the list – it’s up-to-date). […]
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Case Study: How Akeyless Helps Progress
Richard Barretto, VP & CISO at Progress, explains why they chose Akeyless and what the benefits he sees of using it: It helps them move faster and be agile It resolves their secrets sprawl problem It has reduced 60-70% in time they needed to manage and maintain Vault secrets. It helps his developers focus on […]
How to Choose the Optimal Secrets Management Solution
Secrets management solutions tend to be critical and will probably accompany your company for years to come, so it’s important to make the right choice. Here we provide a partial list of tips that can help you choose the best solution for your needs: Are you using more than one cloud provider or do you […]
New Recording: Secrets Management Workshop Using Akeyless Vault
Recently we hosted a live webinar + workshop about Secrets Management, and the recording is ready! One of the well-known challenges in recent years are the secrets sprawl and how to protect secrets. As more companies move to cloud, use Kubernetes or microservices – they understand those challenges are more critical. Recently we have started […]
What’s New in GitLab 14.9
GitLab 14.9 was released yesterday and we’ve just made two updated lists of GitLab features All NEW features (since June 2018) separated by editions, release, popularity, stages and more (so you can easily filter it out by your preferred criteria) ALL GitLab Features separate by editions, categories, documentation and more (so you can quickly find out what’s in one edition VS another edition) We made this […]
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 […]
What is GitOps?
GitOps is a methodology that takes DevOps best practices used for application lifecylcle development (ALM) such as version control, pull/merge quests, CI/CD, collaboration, compliance,and then applies them to infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation. Applying GitOps helps you gain improved efficiency, built-in backups, more security, saving money (by automation and avoiding mistakes), reduced costs and faster deployments. […]
Case Study: Why Cimpress Moved to Akeyless Vault
Cimpress is a global company with 13 subsidiaries. In this video, the security team of Cimpress discusses their move from their previous secrets management solution to Akeyless Vault Platform. We have added captions for your convenience. Watch the Video (3 min.): We (ALM-Toolbox) are the official representative of Akeyless worldwide, and we offer end-to-end […]
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 […]
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 & […]
What’s New in GitLab 14.7
GitLab 14.7 was released yesterday and we’ve just made two updated lists of GitLab features All NEW features (since June 2018) separated by editions, release, popularity, stages and more (so you can easily filter it out by your preferred criteria) ALL GitLab Features separate by editions, categories, documentation and more (so you can quickly find out what’s in one edition VS another edition) We made this […]
What Source Code Management Features are available in GitLab Premium only?
Last update: January 3rd 2023 GitLab Premium offers more features on top of GitLab free (or Community Edition). There are 12 extra features of GitLab’s source code management in Premium (out of 39 relevant features in total): Required Merge Request Approvals Multiple approvers in code review Approval rules for code review Repository mirroring Push rules […]
What’s New in GitLab 14.6
GitLab 14.6 was released yesterday and we’ve just made two updated lists of GitLab features All NEW features (since June 2018) separated by editions, release, popularity, stages and more (so you can easily filter it out by your preferred criteria) ALL GitLab Features separate by editions, categories, documentation and more (so you can quickly find out what’s in one edition VS another edition) We made this […]
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 […]