Welcome to Pluralsight and its Blue Team Tools course,
featuring TruffleHog,
the open‑source file analysis tool developed and maintained by Truffle Security.
Ensuring your organization has complete control over all credentials and secrets
is an important part of maintaining a secure organization.
Here,
we want to reduce the time between any credential loss occurring and
your organization detecting and remediating them.
If you avoid this activity,
then you may be impacted by serious incidents and
become the next cybersecurity statistic.
In this course,
you will learn how to use TruffleHog to identify and detect credentials
and secrets stored within source-code repositories.
We'll cover specifically GitHub,
a source‑code repository vendor used within many enterprises today.
You will learn how to audit your source‑code repositories to help
protect your environments to reduce security risk.
Finally,
you'll learn about decoy credentials as an active defense technique to help
identify threat actors specifically targeting your organization.
TruffleHog has been available for many years,
yet many organizations fail to maintain control of credential leakage.
This course is aimed at all security professionals,
whether it be for general awareness or how to implement and use the tooling.
Whatever the background, you'll find this course useful.
I would also recommend this course to users
traditionally outside of security teams,
such as developers and product managers,
as there is useful information here in the growing area of DevSecOps.
The open‑source version of TruffleHog is free, free to use at no cost.
Please join me in learning TruffleHog and start to learn how to secure
your credentials and source‑code repositories today.