Secrets Exposed: How to mitigate risk from development secrets leaks — and prevent future breaches

Leaks and exposures of sensitive information in open source and proprietary code repositories are approaching epidemic proportions. Hardly a week goes by without reports of attacks on firms that leverage credentials, tokens or signing keys found lurking in code repositories. 

There were more than 10 million secrets leaked to the GitHub source code repository in 2022 — and one in 10 GitHub code authors exposed a secret in 2022, said the recent State of Secrets Sprawl Report, released by …

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