Your AI Coding Agent Is Creating Secrets You Don’t Know About

Ask a coding agent to build something that talks to another service and watch what it does. It creates a client secret. Then another one. As Arturo Lucatero puts it, next thing you know you have ten secrets that were created without you knowing about it. At the speed AI is moving, he thinks we could be cleaning up a few million new secrets within six months.
That would undo a lot of hard work. Under Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative, Microsoft spent years removing secrets from its own estate and helping customers do the same with managed identities and workload identity federation. The…