Attackers already know the secrets are on your developers’ machines. Do you?

In a recent GitGuardian analysis, an average of 150 secrets were found on a sample of developer endpoints. Private keys accounted for 38% of unique secrets, while cloud, identity provider, and secret management credentials (AWS IAM, Hashicorp vault) added another 22%. Those figures should not be treated as a universal prevalence estimate for every developer machine, but they are directionally significant. They show how much credential material can accumulate outside the places security teams usually … More →

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