Ankur Bansal
Ankur is an Expert Application Engineer at Discover Financial Services (DFS). He is very passionate about building large and complex highly available applications using Java/JavaScript/Python and related open source tooling. He is a full stack developer who also wears an architect hat from time to time. Ankur loves to follow the latest in technology trends and how enterprise apps can take advantage of them to deliver a better customer experience. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Besides work, Ankur loves to follow cricket and is very active in the field of investing.
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Numerous developers swiftly write and launch code in an agile environment, postponing secret management for later. A developer might opt to temporarily hard-code the secrets, and, upon merging the final version with the main branch, eliminate the secrets and transition to more secure alternatives, such as retrieving the secret from them. Regrettably, individuals err, and frequently those secrets are overlooked, hidden within the code, and missed during code review, ultimately ending up merging code into the main brach. The most obvious place to start scanning for secrets is in code. Securing the code and automating the scan could be the right solution to avoid any human error.