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Deepfence SecretScanner can find unprotected secrets in container images or file systems. Secrets are any kind of sensitive or private data that gives authorized users permission to access critical IT infrastructure (such as accounts, devices, networks, cloud based services), applications, storage, databases, and other kinds of critical data for an organization. For example, passwords, AWS access IDs, AWS secret access keys, Google OAuth Key etc. are secrets. Secrets should be strictly kept private. However, sometimes attackers can easily access secrets due to flawed security policies or inadvertent mistakes by developers. Sometimes developers use default secrets or leave hard-coded secrets such as passwords, API keys, encryption keys, SSH keys, tokens, etc. in container images, especially during rapid development and deployment cycles in CI/CD pipeline. Also, sometimes users store passwords in plain text.
Features
- SecretScanner is a standalone tool that retrieves and searches container and host filesystems, matching the contents against a database of approximately 140 secret types
- Documentation available
- SecretScanner is also included in ThreatMapper, an open source scanner that identifies vulnerable dependencies and unprotected secrets in cloud native applications, and ranks these vulnerabilities based on their risk-of-exploit
- Examples available
- Secrets are any kind of sensitive or private data which gives authorized users permission to access critical IT infrastructure
- Use SecretScanner if you need a lightweight, efficient method to scan container images and filesystems for possible secrets
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