# How IT can reduce credential risk across every department

DevFeed: [How IT can reduce credential risk across every department](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-it-can-reduce-credential-risk-across-every-department-1911.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://1password.com/blog/credential-risk-across-departments>)

Author: info@1password.com (Rachel Sudbeck)

Published: 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog on 1Password Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-1password-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>)

Tags: [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [api-keys](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-keys.md>), [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/passwords.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [webinars](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webinars.md>)

## AI overview

A 1Password webinar recap about credential sprawl across departments. It argues that AI agents and AI tools increase the risk of exposing passwords, API keys, tokens, and other developer secrets, creating a need for IT and security oversight.

## Source excerpt

Note __This blog is a recap of 1Password's recent webinar, "The credential sprawl tour: Is your department leaking secrets?" [Head here](https://1password.com/webinars/secure-every-credential) to watch the complete webinar recording.__ Credential sprawl has long been an issue IT and security teams have had to grapple with, and solutions like single-sign-on (SSO) have never been able to contain it completely. Now, AI is accelerating the problem. AI agents need access to credentials at an unprecedented scale, leaving IT and security teams struggling even more to ensure that every credential, across every department, is secure. These issues were the focus of 1Password's recent webinar: "The credential sprawl tour: Is your department leaking secrets?" During the webinar, Sebastian Cevallos, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Graham McKelvie, Solutions Engineer, explored how 1Password's solutions can help IT and security teams secure and govern these unapproved or unmanaged credentials. Key takeaways from the webinar: AI didn't create credential sprawl, but it's accelerating it Teams like product, marketing, and finance all have complex needs when it comes to managing credential sprawl Third-party contractors and vendors are their own challenge, and overprivileged access poses increasing risk to security 1Password provides IT and security teams with the tools they need to gain oversight and governance over all of the credentials that exist outside SSO Read on for an in-depth exploration of the webinar's key themes. Password and secrets sprawl across every department The webinar provided a department-by-department overview of how credential sprawl proliferates across teams and roles. Product: Developer secrets are used across departments AI is dramatically changing how teams manage developer secrets. As McKelvie explained, "The challenge isn't just managing passwords anymore. It's managing every identity, credential, API key, tokens, and all of the secrets that are pow