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Somerford Blog Vault Enterprise: Secrets Management at Scale Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 11/01/21 HashiCorp’s Vault is a highly-flexible secrets management system: whether you’re a team looking for a secure, hassle-free key-value store for your application’s secrets, or an organisation in need of encryption-as-a-service to meet data-at-rest requirements, Vault is the answer; as your team […]

Somerford Blog Protecting HashiCorp Vault against Insider Threats Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 20/09/21 We’ve talked before about HashiCorp Vault’s many features, and how it can help organisations manage their secrets. To securely do so, however, requires much from many teams across your organisation. This includes from your Vault deployment’s inception, through design to Day

Somerford Blog Top 5 Reasons to Choose HashiCorp Vault Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 12/12/2024 What is HashiCorp Vault? HashiCorp’s Vault (just Vault hereafter) is so versatile that it makes it tough to write a post like this. It’s the swiss army knife of the security world, I think it’s fair to say; and therefore,

Somerford Blog Extending Vault: Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis HashiConf Global is a wrap, and, along with loads of Kubernetes integrations, a main theme was the importance of zero trust as a security model for modern organisations. In a multi-cloud context, this can be summarised as four pillars: human authentication and

Somerford Blog Our HashiConf 2023 Recap Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 07/12/2023 HashiConf ‘23 is a wrap! And what a time it is to be working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)! HashiCorp announced the biggest changes to its Terraform engine since the product’s launch, and didn’t stop there; I’ll go through a few of

Somerford Blog What is HashiCorp Consul? Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 24/01/2024 Consul is a service networking solution. But what do we mean by that? Well, when we’re talking about what HashiCorp calls the Cloud Operating Model, we have to change our approach, on many fronts: if there is still a ticketing system of