Wildfire Blog | Information Security

Securing Access. Without Secrets.

By Kyle Kurz
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November 06, 2023

Passkeys are all the rage these days, for obvious reasons. The idea of replacing a complex (or worse, reused) password you must remember with a unique generated secret stored on your machine for each ...

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The Three Pillars Of DevSecOps

By Kyle Kurz
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October 20, 2022

When I'm interviewing potential candidates for our Developer jobs at Wildfire, one of my favorite discussions is the question "How do you define DevSecOps?" A quick search of Hacker News will show ...

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Desert Terraform for Our White-Label Rewards Platform: An Oasis of DRY Principles

By Kyle Kurz
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May 03, 2022

Terraform is an incredibly powerful tool for managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). (In fact, we’ve already made note of how we’re using Terraform to manage our passwords & secrets at Wildfire.) ...

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Speeding Up Wildfire Cashback Program Delivery with Secure, Private NPM Code Packages

By Adison Lay
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March 15, 2022

Background: Simultaneous Cashback Program Development A major goal in software development is to keep your code DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). Ideally, when you require a piece of functionality in ...

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Deploying Secrets: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Tooling

By Kyle Kurz
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January 21, 2022

Introduction Secret management is hard. There, I said it. Leaked secrets in Slack channels, shared Google documents or accidental commits to a codebase are commonplace, daily occurrences at many ...

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