You're One Secret Away From a Breach: Doppler's New Security Tools Surface Vulnerabilities Fast

Recent incidents at major tech companies show just how easy it is for stale over-provisioned credentials to go unnoticed and overlooked. Doppler's recent updates give teams a clearer view and better control over uncovering problematic areas and fixing them.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Most security breaches don't start with something flashy. They start with a secret someone forgot to delete.

In the past few weeks alone, attackers have exploited credentials left behind in CI pipelines and cloud configs, prompting warnings from GitHub, Oracle, and even CISA. These aren't isolated mistakes. They're symptoms of a broader issue: teams don't always know what secrets they have, who has access, or whether those credentials are still in use.

This isn't an outlier. According to a recent Doppler white paper, secrets mismanagement is now one of the most urgent operational and security issues facing cloud-native teams. The paper highlights how outdated methods, like .env files, hardcoded tokens, and manual updates, introduce blind spots that attackers are increasingly targeting.

Doppler's latest release tackles this head-on.

"Security shouldn't depend on perfect memory or manual cleanup," said Brian Vallelunga, CEO at Doppler. "These new tools help teams scale securely by showing them what's out of date, overexposed, or just plain forgotten, before attackers find it first."

The new release includes:

• Change Request Policies - Adds guardrails around sensitive changes. Every update is logged, reviewable, and tied to a specific user or process.
• Service Account Identities (OIDC) - Replace long-lived tokens, the exact credential type flagged in CISA's Oracle advisory, with identity-based access. That means fewer static credentials sitting around, waiting to be misused.
• Integration Access Scoping - Lets teams restrict what third-party tools and pipelines can access. No more full access by default.
• Analytics Dashboard - Shows you which secrets are stale, expired, or haven't been touched in months. It's built to help teams prioritize cleanup and tighten controls.

These features are aimed at what Doppler's recent white paper calls "one of the most pressing challenges of 2025": the fact that secrets sprawl silently and no one knows how bad it is until it's too late.

The paper highlights how manual processes, patchwork access controls, and aging tools make it easy for credentials to drift out of sync. And once they do, most teams have no easy way to spot the problem.

Doppler sees what others miss. In the same paper, companies reported:

• 90%+ reduction in audit time
• 98% less time spent managing secrets day to day
• A shift from 8 hours of manual updates to near-instant, policy-backed changes

These numbers aren't about saving time. They're about avoiding the kinds of lapses that make headlines.

"We're not just making it easier to manage secrets," Brian added. "We're making it easier to know where things stand and what needs attention."

About Doppler

Doppler eliminates secret sprawl, automates secret rotation, and enforces security best practices without slowing teams down. Security professionals gain audit logs, anomaly detection, and compliance tools, while DevOps automates CI/CD syncs, infrastructure integrations, and secret versioning. Protect data, prevent leaks, and ensure reliability so teams can focus on innovation, not secrets management.

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