The data from this year's State of Secrets Sprawl report shows that AI is not creating a new secrets problem; it is accelerating every condition that already made secrets dangerous.
The data from this year's State of Secrets Sprawl report shows that AI is not creating a new secrets problem; it is accelerating every condition that already made secrets dangerous.
At Gartner IAM Summit 2026, the strongest conversations were about machine identities, AI agents, secrets, trusted integrations, and the growing realization that credential abuse now sits much closer to the center of enterprise risk.
Learn how GitGuardian supports NHI governance with a secrets-first model that improves visibility, reduces sprawl, and helps teams manage machine identity risk.
What resonated most at RWC 2026? GitGuardian highlights key research on private key leaks, password managers, trusted execution environments, and secret sprawl.
AI was everywhere at RSAC 2026, but the real focus was operational security: managing agents, protecting secrets, and controlling trusted integrations at scale.
Supply chain attacks cascade through ecosystems in ways traditional metrics hardly capture. GitGuardian evaluates the PCP Team incidents and finds damage spread to thousands of public targets.
Learn how to detect compromise, assess your exposure to the LiteLLM supply chain attack, and use GitGuardian to orchestrate rapid incident response and secret remediation.
BSides SF 2026 explored how identity risk, production drift, and developer tooling are changing modern security strategy for defenders and platform teams.
The Trivy story is moving quickly, and the latest reporting makes one thing clear: this is no longer just a GitHub Actions tag hijack. What started as a compromise of trivy-action, setup-trivy, and the v0.69.4 release has expanded into malicious Docker Hub images.
Plaintext secrets on developer machines create real supply chain risk. Honeytokens provide early detection while stronger identity-based controls are rolled out.
From golden images to agent governance, Chainguard Assemble 2026 focused on how teams can reduce risk by embedding trust, compliance, and security into delivery systems.
GitGuardian’s 5th State of Secrets Sprawl report is here. In this blog, we unpack the key findings behind the 2026 edition, from AI-driven leak growth to the remediation gaps security teams can’t ignore.
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