The State of Secrets Sprawl: How AI-Assisted Development and Unmanaged Credentials Are Fueling a Multi-Million-Dollar Crisis
Executive Overview The modern software development lifecycle is facing an unprecedented security crisis. As organizations race to ship features faster, embrace cloud-native infrastructure, and integrate generative artificial intelligence into daily workflows, a silent hazard has expanded exponentially: secrets sprawl. Hardcoded application programming interface (API) keys, database passwords, cryptographic certificates, and cloud provider tokens are routinely…
