The Convergence of Cloud Secrets & AI Risk

## Executive summary The SentinelOne report analyzes telemetry from 11,000+ customer environments and finds a sharp rise in AI-specific credentials and general cloud secrets exposure (AI keys up ~140%), enabling attackers to chain legacy CVE exploitation with exposed secrets to access sensitive data, payment systems, and CI/CD pipelines; it recommends continuous surface monitoring, DevSecOps automation, and centralized governance of AI credentials to mitigate these risks.