{"id":19726,"date":"2026-03-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-2026-9-takeaways-for-cisos-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:30:00","slug":"the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-2026-9-takeaways-for-cisos-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-2026-9-takeaways-for-cisos-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Secrets Sprawl 2026: 9 Takeaways for CISOs info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secrets sprawl isn&#8217;t slowing down: in 2025, it accelerated faster than most security teams anticipated. GitGuardian&#8217;s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report analyzed billions of commits across public GitHub and uncovered 29 million new hardcoded secrets in 2025 alone, a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump ever recorded.<br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s findings reveal three core trends: AI has<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-2026-9.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secrets sprawl isn&#8217;t slowing down: in 2025, it accelerated faster than most security teams anticipated. GitGuardian&#8217;s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report analyzed billions of commits across public GitHub and uncovered 29 million new hardcoded secrets in 2025 alone, a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump ever recorded. This year&#8217;s findings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}