GitGuardian Brings Secrets Detection to Amazon Kiro AI IDE via New Marketplace Power

GitGuardian has launched a Power on the Amazon Kiro marketplace, enabling the AI-powered IDE's agent to scan codebases for exposed secrets directly within the developer workflow. The integration allows Kiro to detect hardcoded credentials across files, git history, staged changes, and even Docker images, then guide developers through remediation steps such as replacing secrets with environment variables. The move addresses a growing problem highlighted in GitGuardian's State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report, which found 28.6 million new secrets exposed on public GitHub in 2025, a 34% year-over-year increase and the largest single-year rise on record. Developers using AI coding assistants were found to leak secrets at roughly twice the baseline rate, as AI models were not trained to avoid hardcoding credentials. The Power also includes a honeytoken feature that plants decoy AWS credentials as tripwires, alerting teams via the GitGuardian dashboard if an attacker accesses them.
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