Company
Date Published
Author
Ziad Ghalleb
Word count
495
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

GitGuardian has developed an extensive library of over 350 detectors to identify secrets in source code, covering both specific patterns like AWS keys and more generic, contextless strings such as passwords and JWT tokens. This approach has been successful in raising about 40% of alerts for secrets exposure. To further enhance detection capabilities, GitGuardian is now allowing users to create custom detectors for proprietary secrets specific to their organizations, available in public beta for users with a Manager role under the Business plan or trial. Users can define and submit custom patterns, which GitGuardian's engineering team will review to ensure precision before deploying. While the custom detectors aim to cover organization-specific secrets, requests for patterns related to Personal Identifiable Information (PII) or Protected Health Information (PHI) are currently not accepted during the beta phase.