Secrets Scanning, Detection & Prevention to Keep Your Code Secure

Powerful AI-driven secrets detection and prevention to automatically find, fix, and secure sensitive data across your code, cloud, and collaboration tools—before threats arise.

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The Risk of Leaked Secrets and How to Protect Them

Secrets are vital to software development today; modern apps use hundreds of secrets to operate. API keys, access tokens, credentials, and other secrets ensure the security of applications and data, and enable non-human identities to communicate. And, secrets are everywhere, found far beyond source code. With such value comes risk – secrets are a prime target for attackers seeking to infiltrate your software supply chain.

Secrets are everywhere – far beyond source code

Secrets are continually added by developers

Secrets live in history and shadow assets forever

Secrets scanning is burdened with false positives

Exposed secrets can lead to

Supply chain attacks

Secrets create an attacker entry point to conduct a more significant supply chain attack.

Increased developer workload

Developers spend significant time tracking down and removing secrets. 

Painful remediation

Addressing a secret already deployed doesn’t end in simply revoking it.

A compliance violation

PII in the development environment can lead to compliance violations.

You can prevent exposed secrets by

Increasing Awareness

Make sure your software development organization is aware
of the different locations where sensitive data can get exposed.

Continuously Scanning for Secrets

Employ automated secrets scanning that covers all assets where secrets can hide, including source code, build logs, artifacts, documentation pages, etc. 

Preventing Secrets in Source Code

With checks on endpoints, before merge, and scans of codebase. 

Hardening Your Systems

Ensure no misconfigurations are increasing risk. 

Key Features of Legit Secrets Scanning

Uncover secrets creating risk

Legit uncovers secrets wherever they reside in your developer environment because source code is only the tip of the iceberg. From ticketing & ITSM systems, artifact registries and shared workspaces such as Confluence, Jira, and Slack, to your developers’ personal GitHub accounts, we go deep to identify every secret. We even unearth secrets hiding in Git history.

Analyze & visualize secrets

Legit analytics provide a deep view of secrets and the associated security activities. With our centralized dashboard, you have one view of all secrets detection and prevention across the enterprise. Your teams will benefit from a simple, clear way to gain a complete view of your secrets posture.

Remediate risk that matters

Legit helps you to prioritize developers’ work based on risk to the business. We dive deep into your secrets to prioritize remediation based on factors such as severity, source, repo, and user. Legit’s automation and orchestration capabilities enable you to immediately fix any existing secrets. Legit also provides a simple view of new secrets, plus remediation and backlog trends so you can assess the effectiveness of your AppSec program.

Actively prevent with automated guardrails

Legit allows you to stop the bleeding with automated guardrails that can actively prevent new secrets from entering the developer environment. This can be extended all the way to the individual developer endpoint with the Legit CLI.

Get secrets scanning with AI-powered accuracy

Unlike open-source tools, Legit has a continually learning engine with a low rate of missed detections to find all secrets in your SDLC, while the platform delivers extensive context and prioritization capabilities to limit the impact of false positives.

Secrets aren’t just a problem for developers or AppSec teams. Because secrets connect so many vital non-human identities, the potential impact is great. Legit Secrets Detection & Prevention can solve problems across the business.

CISOs

Secrets are a top area of risk to the business. Legit provides an executive-level view of your secrets posture so you can understand and communicate risk status and trends.

AppSec

Exposed secrets open up avenues to infiltrate your applications and software supply chain. Legit helps you identify and fix the issues that matter most.

Cloud Engineering

Secrets are the key to allowing cloud services to interact, communicate, and do their jobs. With Legit, you can protect these lifelines and ensure your services are secure and resilient.

Platform Engineering

Developers rely on secrets to build and deliver the apps your business relies on. With Legit, you can ensure the platform services that enable developers to do their job remain secure and protected.

Security Operations

Because secrets are so prevalent, they play a central role in expanding your overall attack surface. With Legit, you can reduce this risk by ensuring secrets are identified, remediated, and prevented.

How Are Secrets Exposed?

Developers leaving secrets in code inadvertently

A developer can choose to temporarily hard-code a secret, and when merging the final revision to the main branch, remove the secret and switch to a more secure option. Unfortunately, people make mistakes, and many times those secrets are forgotten in the code. 

Sharing secrets via messaging and collaboration services

Secrets are often shared through these services, such as Confluence, SharePoint, etc., without realizing the potential damage. 

Misconfigurations leading to the exposure of secrets in build logs

Build logs often contain sensitive secrets, which can end up exposed if they are configured to be publicly accessible.

Developers leaving secrets in artifacts

When creating a final application artifact, sensitive data can be packed by mistake.

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