{"id":383335,"date":"2026-11-06T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=383335"},"modified":"2026-11-06T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:16:07","slug":"blueflag-securitys-2026-report-99-of-repository-tokens-never-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blueflag-securitys-2026-report-99-of-repository-tokens-never-expire\/","title":{"rendered":"BlueFlag Security\u2019s 2026 report: 99% of repository tokens never expire"},"content":{"rendered":"

BlueFlag Security just published its 2026 report on token sprawl, excessive repository access, and coding-agent risk, and the numbers are rough. Non-human identities now outnumber developers 8:1<\/strong>. BlueFlag says 99% of tokens never expire, 84% can change code, and 47% sat unused for 90 days. Developers also left 61% of permissions unused, 88% of the most over-permissioned identities could still reach business-critical repositories, and four in five organizations still had inactive admin developers.<\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s the coding-agent piece. The report says a typical organization now uses seven assistants<\/strong>, and some are running more than 30.<\/p>\n\n

That comes with its own mess: 83% had unapproved<\/strong> agents, 68% of their accounts were admins, and 81% had no monitoring in place. BlueFlag also found 28.65 million hardcoded secrets in public GitHub<\/a> commits in 2025, up 34%. Coding-service leaks rose 81%. And 64% of credentials validated in 2022 were still active in January 2026. On top of that, six code generators made the wrong security call 47% of the time unless they were given explicit security rules.<\/p>\n\n

If you manage repositories, automation, or contractors, this report is one to pull<\/strong> and act on: review access, enforce least privilege, cap token lifetimes, revoke or rotate exposed credentials, limit access tokens, move automation to GitHub Apps or OpenID Connect (OIDC), and apply Zero Trust<\/a>. Attackers are already going after coding-tool tokens, and the fallout can be remote code execution or straight data theft.<\/p>\n\n

The full BlueFlag Security report is available here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BlueFlag Security just published its 2026 report on token sprawl, excessive repository access, and coding-agent risk, and the numbers are rough. Non-human identities now outnumber developers 8:1. BlueFlag says 99% of tokens never expire, 84% can change code, and 47% sat unused for 90 days. Developers also left 61% of permissions unused, 88% of the … Continue reading “BlueFlag Security\u2019s 2026 report: 99% of repository tokens never expire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9349,"featured_media":383334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-383335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t