Secrets Exposed: Why Your CISO Should Worry About Slack
Briefly

In today’s digital environment, secrets like API keys and passwords are imperative yet often carelessly shared on collaborative platforms, leading to potential disasters.
One small oversight—a plaintext credential left in a Jira comment—can lead to massive breaches, as seen in the data analytics company’s recent fallout that affected millions.
With machine identities exceeding human identities by a staggering ratio of 45-to-1, the challenge of managing secrets effectively grows exponentially.
As more systems communicate on increasingly complex networks, the need for adapting secret management to modern collaboration tools becomes crucial.
Read at The Hacker News
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