@mcdwayne

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28% of secret incidents in 2025 came from outside the codebase. Only 4% of those were also in the code, meaning code scanning alone misses almost all of them.

GitGuardian now scans Jira and Confluence attachments: https://youtu.be/OsZtg394xio

The Secrets Hiding in Your Jira Attachments — GitGuardian Now Finds Them

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I almost always forget to promote, but I do make videos for GitGuardian these days
https://www.youtube.com/c/GitGuardian
GitGuardian

GitGuardian leads the way in Non-Human Identity security, offering end-to-end solutions from secrets detection in code, productivity tools and environments to strong remediation, governance and proactive prevention of leaks.

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My favorite takeaway from the #GCSI conference last week was "to be a successful leader, you must be 'nose in, fingers out.'"

I wrote a post about this fantastic CISO-focused event:

https://blog.gitguardian.com/gcsi-2026

GCSI 2026: AI Readiness in a City Built in Layers

GCSI 2026 showed why cyber readiness depends on visibility into vendors, AI tools, identities, workflows, and hidden business dependencies.

GitGuardian Blog - Take Control of Your Secrets Security

Honored to be on the speaker lineup for KCD New York 2026! I’ll be discussing developer access and supply chain breaches.
It’s going to be a day full of learning and connection — hope to see you there.

➡️https://kcdnewyork.com

#KCDNewYork #Kubernetes #CloudNative

Next week I am going to be in Palo Alto, speaking at the San Francisco Secure Software and AppSec Summit 2026.

You do not want to miss this event!

https://www.clutchevents.co/events/san-francisco-appsec-devsecops-summit-2026?utm_source=GITGUARDIAN

While I can't think of a good reason to actually use Microsoft Edge, another reason emerged today in a long list of reasons not to.

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/microsoft-edge-passwords-enterprise-risk

AI hooks are maybe more valuable than Git hooks. (Add this to the list of things I did not expect to be saying out loud)

https://blog.gitguardian.com/local-guardrails-for-secrets-security/

Local Guardrails for Secrets Security in the Age of AI Coding Assistants

Modern developer environments expose sensitive context across files, prompts, logs, and commands. Learn how layered local controls reduce secrets risk.

GitGuardian Blog - Take Control of Your Secrets Security
Can not believe it is already May...That means we are only a handful of days away from #BSides312 here in my city!
Do you have your tickets yet?
https://bsides312.org/
#GCSI 2026 comes to a close with final remarks from one of the nicest people i know in the security space, Kasi Paturi.
It was such a great event here in Chicago.
End of day keynote at #GCSI 2026
from
Evan Pena, Founder, Armadin