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Confessions of Hardcoded Credentials: Streamlining Secrets and Configuration Management

Presented by

Brad Meador, Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Security & Phani Madhav Devalla, Product Manager, Google Cloud Security

About this talk

We’ve all been there, a database password left in a .env file, or an API key accidentally pushed to GitHub. But what was once a simple oversight is now occurring at a staggering global scale. In 2025 alone, according to the GitGuardian State of Secrets Sprawl Report, 29 million unprotected secrets were found sprawling across GitHub—a 34% increase from the previous year. The AI revolution has only accelerated the risk. AI assistants can cause code to leak secrets at double the normal rate, while LLM infrastructure (Orchestration, RAG, and Vector storage) is leaking credentials 5x faster than model providers themselves. Join us to learn how to move from "Hardcoded Chaos" to a secure-by-design foundation. Learn how to simplify your security posture by decoupling them from your workloads and moving to a centralized, cloud-managed vault. In this webinar, you will learn how to: - Stop Secret Sprawl: Learn the fundamentals of storing and accessing secrets in Google Cloud Secret Manager to permanently eliminate hardcoded keys from your repositories and local files. - Build Secure AI Agents: Discover strategies to neutralize prompt injection attacks and safeguard your infrastructure by strictly isolating agent credentials. - Optimize Configuration Management: Explore how to use Google Cloud Parameter Manager to efficiently store, access, and separate non-sensitive configuration data from your highly sensitive secrets. Bonus: Learn about our latest announcements and how they can help you take secrets and configuration management to the next level.
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