Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for securely handling secrets by securing development and operations pipelines. Techniques include identifying a network access request for a process within the development and operations pipeline; accessing a result of at least one investigation of the process and the network access request, wherein the at least one investigation includes one of monitoring the process behavior, performing a process attestation, or performing an inspection of the network access request; determining whether to authorize the network access request; and conditional on whether the network access request is authorized, dynamically injecting a secret into the network access request, wherein the secret is not made available to the process itself.