Real-Time Secret Detection, Validation & Mitigation | Arnica

Real-Time Secret Detection, Validation, & Automated Mitigation

Detect and validate secrets in real-time. Identify deep context such as secret type, validation status, environment-aware severity, where a secret exists, and who can fix it. Automatically mitigate validated new secrets from git history.

Give Your Developers Security Superpowers

Detect, Validate, and Mitigate Secrets in Real-Time

Detect and validate a wide range of secret types in real-time. Automatically mitigate validated new secrets on code push. Arnica rewrites commits to ensure newly pushed secrets will not be available in git history, minimizing exposure.

Address Secret Exposure in Developer-Native Workflows

Build policy-driven workflows to maximize the likelihood of secret mitigation and meet developers where they work. Alert developers in Slack or Microsoft Teams and make “git rebase” easy. Open a Jira or Azure DevOps Boards ticket.

Continuously Audit and Revalidate Secret Exposure

Scan your entire codebase daily to maintain an up-to-date picture of secret exposure within your code. Arnica revalidates every secret on every code change and during scheduled scans.

Prioritize the Most Important Secret Findings

Arnica automatically assigns risk severity to secrets based on validation context. For example, risk severity for credentials to a highly privileged account is higher than a secret for a development account, even if they have the same secret type.

Eliminate Secret Exposure from Your Software Development

Real-Time Secret Detection, Validation, & Mitigation

Detect and mitigate validated secrets in real-time as they are pushed by developers removing secrets from a code commit and all git history, with no development work.

Developer-Native Secrets Workflows Built for Development Teams

Leverage Arnica’s developer-native workflow integrations with the tools your developers use in order to maximize the likelihood of secret mitigation and minimize effort.

Granular Secrets Scanning Policies

Establish fine-grained secrets policies to customize your approach to secret scanning and resolution workflows.

Customer testimonials

Hear what Arnica users have to say about how pipelineless security helped them build their own world-class application security program.

Brad Young

VP of Technology
"Arnica has been a piece of allowing us to accelerate like that. As I've taken my team and split it up into smaller groups - some two-person teams tackling fairly big functionality - Arnica being part of it has been really successful for us."

Mark Stanislav

VP of Security Engineering & GRC
"When one of our developers pushes a valid hardcoded secret, we send a message in Slack to the developer immediately letting them know that Arnica fixed it for them."

Establish your no new secrets policy in minutes.

Keep new secrets out of your code by automatically mitigating new validated hardcoded secrets.

FAQ

  1. What are hardcoded secrets and why are they a security risk?
    Hardcoded secrets are credentials, API keys, tokens, or passwords embedded directly in source code. They create security risks because anyone with access to the code repository can discover and misuse these credentials to gain unauthorized access.

  2. How does Arnica detect hardcoded secrets in real-time?
    Arnica scans every code push as it happens, detecting secrets the moment they are committed. It validates detected secrets to confirm they are active and assigns risk severity based on the environment and account privilege level.

  3. What does automatic mitigation of secrets mean?
    Automatic mitigation means Arnica can rewrite git commits to remove validated secrets from both the current commit and the entire git history, eliminating exposure without requiring manual developer intervention.

  4. How does Arnica validate whether a detected secret is real?
    Arnica attempts to authenticate with the detected credential to determine if it is valid and active. This validation helps reduce false positives and ensures teams focus on real risks.

  5. Can Arnica handle secrets that already exist in older commits?
    Yes. Arnica scans the entire codebase daily and revalidates every secret on each code change and during scheduled scans to maintain an up-to-date view of secret exposure.

  6. How does environment-aware severity work for secrets?
    Arnica assigns different risk levels based on context. For example, credentials for a highly privileged production account receive higher severity than credentials for a development or test environment, even if the secret types are identical.

  7. Will automatic secret removal break my git history or cause conflicts?
    No. Arnica is designed to handle git history rewrites cleanly. Developers are notified through their preferred tools (Slack, Teams) with guidance on how to rebase if needed.

  8. What types of secrets can Arnica detect?
    Arnica detects a wide range of secret types including API keys, database credentials, cloud provider tokens, private keys, OAuth tokens, and other authentication credentials across multiple platforms and services.

  9. Can I customize policies for how secrets are handled?
    Yes. Arnica allows you to establish fine-grained policies to customize your secret scanning approach, define resolution workflows, and determine which secrets trigger automatic mitigation versus manual review.

  10. How are developers notified when a secret is detected?
    Developers receive alerts through native tools they already use such as Slack or Microsoft Teams. Arnica can also automatically create tickets in Jira or Azure DevOps Boards to track resolution.