18% of Secrets Stay Exposed—Are Yours at Risk?

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Yakir Kadkoda, Director of Security Researcher, Aqua Nautilus, Ofek Itach, Senior Security Researcher, Aqua Nautilus

About this talk

Secrets hidden in your code don't always stay hidden. Aqua Nautilus research uncovered a major blind spot: nearly 18% of secrets remain exposed—even after DevSecOps teams believe they've been removed. Cached secrets, mirrored repositories, and gaps in conventional scanning tools create phantom vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit, sometimes years after a secret was ‘deleted.’ In this eye-opening webinar, Aqua Nautilus will reveal: • Why traditional scanning tools fail to detect nearly 1 in 5 secrets—and what’s missing in current approaches. • How cached secrets and mirrored repositories become long-term security risks. • Real-world examples of exposed secrets leading to full cloud environment breaches. • Cutting-edge strategies to detect, remediate, and prevent secret exposure before attackers get there first. Led by Aqua Nautilus researcher Yakir Kadkoda, this session will explore why secrets management is broken and what security teams must do to safeguard credentials across Kubernetes, telemetry platforms, analytics tools, and more. The risk is real—but so is the solution. Join us to uncover what’s hiding in your code before it’s too late.
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