Coding Agent Security for AppSec Leaders: Start With What Agents Can Reach
AI coding agents can read files, call tools, and use credentials that never appear in a pull request. For AppSec teams, securing the code is only part of the job.
AI coding agents can read files, call tools, and use credentials that never appear in a pull request. For AppSec teams, securing the code is only part of the job.
Rotating 1,000+ service credentials across 150+ applications with zero outages took one lesson: rotation is the last step. Here’s the six-stage SCALER method, from inventory to rotation, and why a revert path made it safer.
GitGuardian researchers reached 44 active Kubernetes clusters through leaked secrets, and 30% had been exposed for more than two years. Here’s how the OWASP Kubernetes Top 10 explains these Kubernetes security risks, and why K03, Secrets Management Failures, turns one leak into a chain.
Six AI agent security best practices for teams running coding agents and MCP servers: limit what a compromised agent can reach and catch credential misuse.
An AI agent runs with your credentials and acts before you can stop it. Nine incidents show what that costs. Six controls limit the damage: sandbox the agent, scope its credentials, lock its configuration, log every call, scan the workspace first, and deny by default.
A secrets vault controls the credentials you manage. Detection finds the ones that escaped. Here are six reasons mature secrets management programs need both.
GitGuardian found a public GitHub repo tied to CISA leaking 844MB of live credentials. Agents Analysis flags which public leaks are actually yours.
Docker Sandboxes isolate AI coding agents from the host. The GitGuardian Mixin Kit adds ggshield and AI hooks to scan prompts, tool actions, and outputs for secrets, giving developers a safer, repeatable path for agentic coding.
A practical checklist for rotating service account credentials safely by assessing validity, leaks, permissions, consumers, vaults, copies, owners, and rollback.
Learn how the OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks map the modern software delivery attack surface, and why credential hygiene sits at the center of so many real-world failures.
Modern developer environments expose sensitive context across files, prompts, logs, and commands. Learn how layered local controls reduce secrets risk.
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.