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GitGuardian
Attackers already know the secrets are on your developers’ machines. Do you?

In a recent GitGuardian analysis, an average of 150 secrets were found on a sample of developer endpoints. Private keys accounted for 38% of unique secrets, while cloud, …

connect
Why you need BAS and autonomous pentesting together

Most security teams know the drill: A new autonomous penetration testing tool gets deployed, and the first run is genuinely impressive. The dashboard surfaces critical …

Delinea managing machine identities
Manage machine identities: The hidden privileged access layer you need to manage

Why are machine identities becoming the majority of “things with access”? Every automation, integration, and workload needs a way to authenticate and the right permissions to …

world map
Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

This is my favourite time of the year, not just because spring is here and the promise of summer is on the way. But also, because one of my must reads each year gets …

GitProtect.io 2026 DevSecOps threat landscape
7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report

In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” by …

Delinea AI identities
The hidden risk of non-human identities in AI adoption

An employee with persistent, unsupervised admin access across critical systems, with no audit trail, no clear owner, and no regular access reviews, would raise immediate …

Patch Tuesday
May 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: AI starts driving security industry changes

Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday is now live: Many fixes, but no zero-days Project Glasswing. This is one of three major security industry changes I’ll cover today. The …

identity
Identity discovery: The overlooked lever in strategic risk reduction

If you ask a CISO what keeps them up at night, the answer usually isn’t “lack of tools.” It’s uncertainty. Uncertainty about what they don’t see. Uncertainty about how far an …

face
Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care

Identity and access management was built for a simpler world. One where the hardest problem was a human logging in, and where “Who are you?” was sufficient to …

AI agents
29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control

AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of …

Patch Tuesday
April 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Spring-cleaning of a preview

I just blinked and the first quarter of the year is GONE. Where does the time go? I looked back at my article from last month where I touched on the use of AI and some of the …

identity
Why I’m done calling humans the weakest link

Cybersecurity has long suffered from a people problem, but not in the way we often hear about. As industry that is based on enabling communication across the globe via the …

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