Secrets incidents

What is a secret incident? What are its implications?

Secret incidents are open issues that need your attention to be resolved. They are created thanks to our secrets detection engine that scans your internal sources for hardcoded secrets to display them in your dashboard.

Leaving a secret in plain text represents a threat for the security of the resources that are protected by that secret. To learn more about why hardcoded secrets are a vulnerability that needs your Application or Product Security teams' attention, read the related paragraph in our Core Concepts section.