Commit Virtual 2021: How Leaky Can It Git? 2 Million Leaked Secrets in 2020
Channel: GitLab
Date: 2021-08-05

Speaker: Mackenzie Jackson

Applications are no longer standalone monoliths, they now rely on thousands of independent building blocks. This is a significant shift in software development which has resulted in the need for developers to handle huge number of credentials we call secrets. These secrets can quickly sprawl into multiple systems and services in a phenomenon called secrets sprawl. 

Throughout 2020, the largest research project conducted on Secrets Sprawl with public git was completed. The project scanned 2.5 million commits a day and over 1 billion commits throughout the year and used individual detectors to uncover 2 million leaked secrets. This presentation looks at the technical details of the study and presents the most interesting findings including, the types of secrets most commonly leaked, common events that expose secrets, common file types and best practices.

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