What are secrets?
Secrets are any sensitive or private information residing in your code that when exposed, will compromise a company's security.
Secrets consist of:
- Passwords
- API keys
- Encryption keys
- Tokens
- Database credentials
SECURE CODE SCANNING FOR DEVELOPERS
Secrets detection
SonarQube detects leaked code secrets throughout your development workflow, identifying them directly in the IDE and within your CI/CD pipeline.
Advanced detection covers even more secrets patterns and cloud services
Damage of leaked secrets
Leaked secrets are a severe security exposure when they end up in the hands of cybercriminals, granting unauthorized access to secure systems and data.
Secrets in your code repository:
- Increases developer workload to find, fix, and push changes
- Requires painful remediation by forcing rotation of keys, tokens, and passwords
How does secrets detection work?
Sonar uses a powerful combination of Regular Expressions and Semantic Analysis to detect secrets in source code. We scan as you code in your IDE with SonarQube for IDE in a true shift left approach, unlike other secrets detection tools, which only detect secrets in Git repo. Because Sonar can detect secrets in code while you write, secrets never enter your repository, eliminating leakage.
Sonar’s secrets detection is…
POWERFUL
FAST
COMPLETE
ACCURATE
RELIABLE
OPEN SOURCE
FREE
POWERFUL
Sonar leverages the power of both RegEx and Semantic Analysis
- Now with 340+ rules that cover 400+ secrets patterns
- Detects secrets/tokens used in 248 cloud services
- Semantic analysis checks covering 19 languages, including Java, C#, PHP, Python, and XML
- Only Sonar covers 1000+ APIs with password or token arguments
- Coverage of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages and files
- Complete scanning of all file types in the repository
Keep your company-specific secrets from leaking
Publicly known secrets cover most of your secrets, but a good portion are company-specific secrets with a structure or format only your company knows. Create custom rules with SonarQube Server Enterprise Edition and Data Center Edition to detect your company’s private secret patterns and deliver the best secrets detection coverage, up to 100% of all your secrets.
The most comprehensive prevention solution
Sonar goes above and beyond by educating developers on which code contains secrets. Each secrets detection rule includes content explaining why the found code segment is a secret and the impact details of why the secret poses a security risk. Now developers know how not to include secrets in their code. How cool is that?
