A major crypto trading platform discovered a credential exposure caused by an internal automation job, highlighting the limits of shift-left defenses. A privileged access management process inadvertently exposed a database password in a shell script within a staging environment. When the update tool was deployed to production, Sysdig’s runtime policies detected the issue in real time, allowing the team to trace it back to a trusted process. Within minutes, they rotated credentials and removed sensitive data, reshaping their security strategy to include runtime protection for stronger defense.

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