What is Secrets Detection?
Finding hardcoded credentials before they get used.
Short answer
Secrets detection is the automated identification of credentials like API keys, tokens, and passwords inside code, documents, and prompts. It is the core of LeakSnitch's engine, applied to the newest and least protected place secrets appear: what employees send to AI tools.
In depth
Developers are trained to scan code repositories for secrets, but nobody thinks to scan a ChatGPT conversation. Secrets detection for AI needs to recognize credentials by format, like the AKIA prefix of AWS access keys, and by context, like the phrase my password is, and LeakSnitch does both with publicly auditable patterns.
The public pattern set is a feature, not a weakness. Security teams can inspect every rule, test it against their own data, and verify in real time what LeakSnitch will catch. That is transparency no other DLP for AI offers.
Frequently asked questions
How does LeakSnitch detect secrets it has never seen?
Format based recognition handles known structures like AWS and Stripe keys, while entropy analysis and context signals catch obfuscated or unusual secrets. The rules are public and the scoring is explainable.
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