Tell every customer to rotate every secret.
Fictional company and people. Modelled on a real public postmortem, named at the end.
you're on call tonight
Nirmaan CI runs a build-and-deploy service that stores secrets for 80,000 software teams. It's 16:20. The channel fills up as the night goes on; at 5 points you make the call. A wrong move costs minutes and users, and someone tells you why.
in the channel
- YouOn-call security engineer
- Anita ChakrabortyHead of security, incident commander
- Yash ThakurPrincipal engineer, platform and identity
- Priyanka DasEngineer, secrets and contexts service
- Neel BanerjeeCommunications lead
- Kiran RaoCTO
~13 min · 5 calls · +60 XP