Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In this video, Dwayne McDaniel, Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, walks you through the workflow security and DevOps teams can follow to investigate and remediate a secret leak using the GitGuardian platform. Whether it’s an exposed API key, token, or internal credential, GitGuardian helps you go from alert to resolution with confidence.

In this video, cybersecurity researcher Guillaume Valadon of GitGuardian breaks down how exposed Laravel APP_KEYs on GitHub can lead to full Remote Code Execution (RCE) in real-world applications. Working in collaboration with Synacktiv, the team uncovered 260,000 exposed keys, validated 600+ vulnerable apps, and revealed that over 35% of leaks also exposed critical credentials like database passwords, cloud storage tokens, and API keys.