Legacy passwords in shared folders
Context, exposure and remediation priority were captured for review.
Case study
Mapping secrets exposure before a security audit
Before a planned audit, a security team needed evidence of credential exposure risk and a prioritized cleanup plan.
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Challenge
Hidden credentials outside controlled systems.
Before a planned audit, a security team needed evidence of credential exposure risk and a prioritized cleanup plan.
What Onyxaris scanned
- High-risk network shares
- Selected repositories
- SharePoint libraries
- OneDrive folders
- Archive directories
Findings
What the team discovered.
Tokens in project docs
Context, exposure and remediation priority were captured for review.
Connection strings in backup folders
Context, exposure and remediation priority were captured for review.
Private keys in old deployment packages
Context, exposure and remediation priority were captured for review.
Outcome
Prioritized remediation and repeatable review.
The team gained a structured cleanup list, rotated high-risk credentials, removed obsolete copies and created a repeatable process for future scans.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Unknown credential exposure | Risk-ranked findings by source |
| Manual folder review | Automated source scanning |
| No central evidence | Documented remediation trail |
| Repository-only view | Cross-source exposure visibility |
Start focused
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