
AI Agents Rerun the Service-Account Mistake: The Governance Gap Nobody Sized
Every agent action is a credential action — and the industry is treating a governance shift as a provisioning task, exactly the way it did with service accounts.

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Every secret scanner hands you a big number, and almost nobody can act on it. When we verified each finding against the service that issued it, a five-figure detection count became a three-figure inventory of credentials that actually work. This is what that collapse means for how you prioritize, what you suppress, and what you tell your board.



Every agent action is a credential action — and the industry is treating a governance shift as a provisioning task, exactly the way it did with service accounts.


The Korean GitHub token leaks and CISA's public-repo exposure were both filed as secrets leaks. What got out was not a file but a live identity. This piece argues that security leaders should treat API keys as identities and shift the defense from prevention rate to how fast you detect what has already leaked.
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