GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl report for 2025 uncovers the concerning magnitude of secrets leakage in contemporary software ecosystems. This phenomenon is fueled by the swift increase in non-human identities (NHIs), which have surpassed human users in quantity for several years. It is imperative that we proactively address this issue and establish security protocols and governance for these machine identities as their implementation continues, leading to an