--- title: The Perimeter Moved to the Laptop and Developer Endpoint description: The security perimeter has shifted from the network to identity, and now to the developer endpoint itself. Developer laptops accumulate long-lived credentials... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-perimeter-moved-to-the-laptop-and-developer-endpoint-lnzf9es7o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Perimeter Moved to the Laptop and Developer Endpoint | daily.dev og:description: The security perimeter has shifted from the network to identity, and now to the developer endpoint itself. Developer laptops accumulate long-lived credentials... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-perimeter-moved-to-the-laptop-and-developer-endpoint-lnzf9es7o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lNzf9es7o.png og:image:alt: The Perimeter Moved to the Laptop and Developer Endpoint og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Perimeter Moved to the Laptop and Developer Endpoint **[GitGuardian](https://daily.dev/sources/gitguardian)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The security perimeter has shifted from the network to identity, and now to the developer endpoint itself. Developer laptops accumulate long-lived credentials — cloud access keys, API tokens, SSH keys, .npmrc tokens, and secrets cached by AI coding agents — in config files and shell history. No existing security layer (network controls, IAM, PAM, EDR, or repo secret scanning) is responsible for inventorying these at-rest credentials. Real-world attacks like the s1ngularity npm supply chain attack and the Shai-Hulud worm demonstrate that attackers exploit this gap by scanning developer machines for valid credentials rather than breaking through the perimeter. The argument is that endpoint credential discovery — finding and revoking exposed secrets before attackers use them — is the missing control that bridges identity security and endpoint protection. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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