GitGuardian’s 2026 State of Secrets Sprawl report documents a systemic non-human identity control failure affecting organizations across GitHub, GitLab, Docker registries, collaboration platforms, and AI service providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Supabase. The 29 million newly hardcoded credentials exposed in 2025 (up 34% year-over-year), the 64% long-term validity rate of previously detected secrets, and the 81% surge in AI service API key leaks collectively indicate that detection pipelines without enforced remediation workflows are not reducing organizational risk. Priority actions include auditing all repositories (internal and public) with secrets scanning tooling, enforcing pre-commit and CI/CD blocking controls, migrating service credentials to secrets management platforms, and establishing SLA-driven remediation workflows for detected secrets. The emergence of MCP server configurations as a high-leverage credential exposure surface warrants specific inclusion in threat modeling.