Secrets Everywhere: Managing the Credential Sprawl in Dev, Ops, and AI

Secrets used to mean a few privileged accounts and maybe a shared root password. Now they are everywhere: in CI/CD pipelines, SaaS connectors, infrastructure automation, and AI prompts. In this narrated edition of “Secrets Everywhere: Managing the Credential Sprawl in Dev, Ops, and AI,” we walk through how normal development, operations, and AI workflows quietly generate a tangle of keys, tokens, and passwords that no vault dashboard really captures. You’ll hear how this sprawl emerges, why “we have a secrets manager” is not enough, and where the real blast radius hides in everyday work. This episode is based on my Wednesday “Headline” feature from Bare Metal Cyber Magazine.