Survey Shines Spotlight On Inability To Keep Application Secrets
DevOps.com, Friday, November 1st, 2024
A global survey of 1,000 IT leaders from organizations with more than 500 employees published today finds that 79% have experienced or are aware of secrets leaking within their organization.
Nevertheless, three-quarters (75%) expressed moderate to high confidence in their organization's ability to detect and prevent hardcoded secrets in source code.
Conducted by GitGuardian in collaboration with CyberArk, the survey finds on the plus side that 77% of respondents work for organizations that are currently investing in or planning to invest in secrets management tools by 2025, with 75% focusing on secrets detection and remediation tools.
Overall, the survey finds that 74% of respondents have implemented at least a partially mature strategy to prevent secret leaks. However, 23% still rely on manual reviews or lack a defined strategy, the survey finds.