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Lean Security Teams Elevate Risk from Hardcoded Secrets

🔒 As organizations shrink and security teams tighten, hardcoded secrets have become a critical, costly blind spot that manual processes can no longer manage. The article cites rising credential-driven breaches, a 292‑day average containment window, and steep financial impacts when secrets are exposed. It contends that precision remediation — contextual ownership, integrated workflows, and automated rotation — is essential to reduce remediation from weeks to hours and to curb analyst overhead. GitGuardian is presented as an example of this targeted remediation approach.