The nightmare of hard-coded credentials

Abstract

With increasing threats from cybercrime and state-sponsored actors around the world, companies need to focus their defence resources on elements that can most cost-effectively reduce their security debt and advance their DevSecOps maturity. Detecting hard-coded secrets in source code is a preventive tactic that greatly increases the cost to the attacker by removing the low-hanging fruits first. But this requires a strategic approach to preserve application security teams’ operational capacity.