The San Francisco Secure Software and AppSec Summit 2026 is an inaugural single-day summit hosted at the Crowne Plaza Palo Alto on May 14, 2026. Organized by Clutch Events, it brings together CTOs, CISOs, AppSec heads, and DevSecOps directors to explore the intersection of software security and modern delivery — from shift-left strategies and open-source risk management to AI agent security and supply chain resilience.

GitGuardian will be on the ground with a booth, demonstrating our platform for secrets security and non-human identity (NHI) governance. As AI-assisted development and agentic workflows accelerate the proliferation of secrets, GitGuardian helps security teams detect, remediate, and prevent exposure across the entire software supply chain — at the speed engineering teams demand.

🎤 Catch our talk — 12:00 PM"How I Solved… Secrets Leaking Into Production Without Slowing Developers Down"Dwayne McDaniel, Principal Developer Advocate, GitGuardian

Secrets leakage is still one of the fastest ways for risk to reach production. Credentials end up in code, CI pipelines, logs, containers, and deployment workflows — often as a byproduct of speed, tool sprawl, and inconsistent controls. But solving the problem isn't as simple as adding more security gates. The real challenge is reducing exposure in a way developers will actually work with.

In this session, Dwayne will explore how organisations can tackle secrets leakage across the software lifecycle while keeping delivery moving, including:

• Where secrets are most often exposed across the SDLC
• How teams can reduce leakage without slowing engineering down
• What guardrails are most effective across development, pipelines, and production
• Where organisations usually get the balance wrong between control and velocity

🎟️ Come find us at our booth for a live demo or a conversation with our team. Attendance is free for qualified professionals — register here.

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