Secrets sprawl isn’t slowing down: in 2025, it accelerated faster than most security teams anticipated. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report analyzed billions of commits across public GitHub and uncovered 29 million new hardcoded secrets in 2025 alone, a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump ever recorded. This year’s findings…
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Palo Alto updates security platform to discover AI agents
As CISOs worry about AI agent sprawl, Palo Alto Networks has announced an update to its Prisma AIRS security platform and enterprise browser to include the ability to discover AI agents, models, and connections across the entire IT environment, to scan agents for vulnerabilities, and to allow admins to simulate red team tests for agents.…
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Reco targets AI agent blind spots with new security capability
SaaS security platform Reco has decided to address the “agent sprawl” challenge from the increased adoption of AI-driven tools by enterprises. It argues that enterprises are faced with a security situation as numerous autonomous agents now traverse multiple systems, accessing sensitive data, and executing actions without direct human oversight. To help contain this risk, the…