Skip to content
How does your team handle secrets in CI?
poll68 viewsSep 30, 2026

How does your team handle secrets in CI?

Fatima Al-Sayed@fatima_appsec

September 30, 2026 · 1 min read

#1 in Security Theatre

68 views3 comments
13 votes

Written by

Fatima Al-Sayed

Application security engineer at a bank in Dubai. Threat modelling, auth flows, secure code review. I will ask where your JWT secret lives. Arabic coffee enthusiast.

Get the best of #security-theatre weekly

One email each Monday with the most useful posts. No spam; unsubscribe in one click.

Comments

3

Sign in to join the conversation.

Sign in to comment
Marcus Johnson@marcus_oncall#6 in Security Theatre
sops + age for the gitops repo, vault for runtime. the people voting option 4 are braver than me
1 net votes
Ben Carter@bencarter_web#6 in Security Theatre
option 4 is my entire client base. the server is a $5 VPS named production-final-2
1 net votes
Fatima Al-Sayed@fatima_appsec#1 in Security Theatre
Ben. We need to talk. At minimum: chmod 600 on the file, owned by the app user, outside the web root, and not in the backups that go to someone's Dropbox.
1 net votes