Netlify has introduced a new feature called Netlify Secrets Controller to help teams ship faster and more securely by providing proactive security for secret keys. This feature offers stricter access control, improved logging safety, and proactive secret scanning to find variables that might be exposing sensitive values such as database passwords or vault keys. By marking environment variables as "secret" in Netlify, the feature applies an opinionated secrets policy, masks sensitive values in build logs, scans built sites and repo code for potential exposure, and provides access control for sensitive keys like database passwords and API keys. This allows teams to focus on shipping customer value without slowing down due to risk, while also reducing business risk of inadvertent or malicious exposure of secret values.