Show Notes
Most password managers ask you to trust them blindly. Bitwarden opens the hood and shows you the code instead. I sat down with Kasey Babcock, a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bitwarden, to get into why that openness matters when a tool is holding every credential you own.
We start with the trust argument for open source, then walk through what is new at Bitwarden lately, from the archive feature and fill assist to encrypted file sharing and Access Intelligence reporting. Then we go where most password manager conversations never do, which is your infrastructure. We talk Secrets Manager, the Terraform integration, pulling secrets into automated workflows, and the mistakes teams make when they move secrets out of plaintext.
We close on passkeys, passwordless, and where the whole industry is heading. Whether you are a security nerd, an admin wrangling secrets across environments, or just tired of reusing the same password everywhere, this one has something for you.
Chapters
00:00 Stream Start
02:01 Meet Kasey Babcock
03:57 Why Open Source Matters
09:19 What's New at Bitwarden
19:52 Access Intelligence for Teams
24:02 Secrets Manager and Infrastructure as Code
30:31 Passkeys and Passwordless
36:41 Wrap-Up
45:30 Closing
Links
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/itguyeric
Kasey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasey-babcock/
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