Case study — First-party exposure
Your own team is your biggest blind spot.
Personal accounts, contractor repositories, and departing employees create exposure no corporate tool was built to see. Exploit Shield watches there too.
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The case study
Twenty years of notes. Domain admin included.
Incident · Healthcare
The 20-Year Admin Repository
OSINT surfaced a public repository tied to a long-tenured employee, a personal archive spanning roughly two decades of work. Inside: domain administrator credentials with unrestricted control, VPN-capable user credentials, service account credentials used for integrations, and data center backup credentials accessing production data.
The repository had been public for more than four months. No internal alerting triggered, because the artifact lived outside corporate identity, source control, and logging.
Nothing about this was malicious. It was a trusted employee keeping personal notes, the way people have kept personal notes for twenty years. The repository was never inside the company's security perimeter, so nothing the company owned was ever positioned to catch it.
The exposure window
Two decades of notes. Public for four months.
The archive itself was never malicious, just personal notes kept the way people keep personal notes. But the moment it went public, it sat outside every system built to notice.
How Exploit Shield helps
Visibility past your corporate identity boundary.
Personal accounts, not just corporate ones
Exploit Shield watches personal GitHub accounts, contractor repositories, and forks that sit outside your GitHub organization, exactly where native secret scanning stops working.
Commit history included
A credential removed from a file often stays valid in the commit log. Exploit Shield looks at what a repository has ever contained, not just its current state.
AI-accelerated, human-reviewed triage
AI classifies and prioritizes findings at scale. Every high-confidence finding is reviewed by an analyst before it reaches you, so you get vetted intelligence, not raw alerts.
Continuous, not a one-time sweep
New exposure can appear months after a clean assessment, especially around onboarding, offboarding, and contractor turnover. Exploit Shield keeps watching after the audit ends.
What we're hearing
500 interns, and no way to know who's following the rules
A SaaS company's security lead described managing over 500 interns at once and estimated that more than half likely don't follow secure coding practices, or don't know what those practices are yet. He saw the appeal immediately: a way to catch an accidental leak from any one of them, without having to police every commit by hand.