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
ADVANCED SECRETS DETECTION
Is your source code leaking secrets?
SonarQube detects leaked secrets throughout your development workflow, identifying them directly in the IDE and within your CI/CD pipeline.
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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
Sonar's comprehensive secret detection goes beyond typical solutions, with over 340 rules that identify more than 400 secret patterns across 248 cloud services and a thousand APIs.
Fast
Running a detect secrets scan happens together with your regular code scan and has no noticeable impact on scan performance time
Complete
Sonar performs secret detection in the IDE using SonarQube for IDE, and in your repository and CI/CD Pipeline using SonarQube Server or SonarQube Cloud.
Accurate
Sonar’s secrets detection boasts a false positive rate of less than 5%, which is critical for ensuring accuracy and maintaining developer trust.
Reliable
Sonar’s secrets detection engine avoids runaways or overflow with a built-in safeguard to quit when it is taking too long to finish.
Open source
Sonar’s secrets detection code and rules are publicly available as Open Source for community contributions. Learn how to contribute!
Free
Secrets detection comes with SonarQube for IDE for free and is included in SonarQube Server and SonarQube Cloud commercial editions at no additional cost.
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?
Build trust into every line of code
Ready to deliver better, secure code? Get started today with the SonarQube deployment that's right for you.
