7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report

The GitProtect “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” presents seven ‘hard truths’ about DevOps security in 2025, highlighting AI-related attack surface expansion, public-repo–driven supply-chain malware, widespread credential/secret leaks, configuration and automation failures causing cloud outages, numerous high-severity vulnerabilities, phishing techniques that bypass MFA, and persistent responsibility for cloud-stored data; it recommends zero-trust for AI, short-lived credentials, CI/CD hardening, dependency auditing, conditional access, and multi-cloud/data-sovereignty strategies.