Secrets Exposed: The why, the how – and what to do about – secrets security in software

For software development teams to maintain and properly set up development environments and pipelines, they need to use software secrets such as environment variables, tokens and keys in these processes.

With the speed and complexity of modern development, software teams leave these secrets exposed in both public and private software repositories. Attackers have caught on to this, and are now scouring these repositories for secrets that they can exploit.

Securing and managing secrets is yet another facet of software supply …

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