Brinqa has announced the integration of a new connector from HoundDog.ai, a static code scanner, into its platform, enhancing its ability to detect and manage vulnerabilities related to Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within application codebases. This integration allows organizations to proactively identify and mitigate PII leaks and overlogging issues before reaching production, thus bridging the gap between Application Security (AppSec) and Data Security teams. By incorporating HoundDog.ai, Brinqa expands vulnerability coverage and risk assessment, emphasizing the importance of data sensitivity and enabling a privacy-first security approach. The integration addresses the challenges faced by AppSec teams, who often lack visibility into sensitive data flows, by providing a comprehensive view of security findings and facilitating compliance with data processing agreements. This proactive strategy is critical in a landscape where PII constitutes a major target for attackers, accounting for a significant portion of compromised data, and where traditional security measures often react only after data breaches occur in production environments.