DevSecOps in Practice: Tools That Actually Catch Vulnerabilities - Part 1

Secret Scanning with Gitleaks I have built a deliberately vulnerable Flask app to use as a target for building a real DevSecOps pipeline. The repo is at https://github.com/pkkht/devsecops-demo . This part covers the first gate in the pipeline — secret scanning. Why secrets in code are such a big deal? AWS access keys, API tokens, database passwords — they end up in source code more often than you would think. A developer hardcodes a key to test something locally, forgets to remove it, and commit