E-book: Secrets at Scale - A Security Leaders Guide

Your organisation almost certainly has a secrets problem. As automation has accelerated, applications, pipelines, and AI agents have multiplied the number of credentials in use. Most of them are static, scattered, and ungoverned and this is a blind spot that credential-based attackers are actively exploiting.

Key Takeaways from the ebook:

Machines are the new attack surface: Human identity governance has matured significantly, but most organisations have a critical blind spot: the credentials used by applications, pipelines, and services. That gap is where breaches happen.

Secrets sprawl is a byproduct of automation: Every new pipeline, microservice, or cloud integration creates credentials that need managing. Without a centralised approach, these proliferate across repositories, logs, and environments.

The regulatory stakes are rising: The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, FCA operational resilience expectations, PCI-DSS, DORA, and the NCSC CAF all have direct or indirect implications for how organisations manage machine identities. Non-compliance is no longer just a security risk, it's a financial and legal one, with fines of up to £17m or 4% of global turnover.

Modern secrets management is a foundational control: Centralised visibility, automated rotation, least-privilege access, and a single audit trail are the baseline for a defensible security posture at scale.

You can't manage what you can't see: The first step is understanding the scale of your current exposure. Many organisations discover far more unmanaged secrets than they expected once they start looking.

Download this ebook to understand why the problem is growing, what it means for your sector, and what a mature response looks like.