The State of Secrets Sprawl 2022

GitGuardian's 2022 State of Secrets Sprawl report reveals a significant increase in secrets leaks on public GitHub, with a two-fold rise in 2021 compared to the previous year, highlighting that three out of every 1,000 commits exposed a secret. The report underscores the challenges faced by IT professionals as the volume of secrets-in-code continues to grow, overwhelming the capabilities of application security teams and threatening the transition to DevSecOps. Private corporate repositories are four times more likely to expose secrets compared to open-source ones, indicating a misplaced trust in their security. The report suggests a collaborative prevention model between AppSec teams and developers as a solution to address the threat of secrets sprawl without overburdening security teams.

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