Secrets management | Developer exposure audit

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Executive Snapshot Your secrets management assumes developers never commit credentials to public repositories. A single researcher just proved that assumption wrong across 17,000 verified live secrets in 5.6 million public GitLab repositories, costing attackers only $770 and 24 hours to replicate.

Signal The AI development boom is accelerating secret sprawl in public repositories, with GitLab showing 35% higher credential leakage density than competing platforms and some live secrets dating back over 15 years.

Strategic Implication Adversaries can scan your entire public code footprint faster than your security team can complete a quarterly review.

Action

• Audit all public repositories tied to corporate domains today.

• Revoke and rotate every GCP, MongoDB, and Slack token found in public commits now.

• Deploy pre-commit secret scanning hooks across all development teams this week.