TRUFFLEHOG ENTERPRISE + GITHUB ADVANCED SECURITY
Keep push protection. Clean up what already got out.
GitHub Advanced Security stops secrets at the moment of commit, and most teams should keep it. TruffleHog Enterprise finds the secrets that are already out, confirms which still work, and proves the access is gone.
Where secrets go
New commit to GitHub
BLOCKED BY GHAS
ALREADY OUT, PAST THE GATE
Slack
LIVE
Jira ticket
NOT LIVE
CI log
LIVE
Old commit history
LIVE
Cloud bucket
REVOKED
Confluence page
NOT LIVE
TRUFFLEHOG
Finds them, verifies them, routes them, retests them.
TRUSTED BY SECURITY TEAMS AT
DIFFERENT JOBS, SAME PROBLEM
What each one does
GitHub Advanced Security
Sits where code is written and stops new secrets at the gate. Push protection in the developer flow is the right control.
TruffleHog Enterprise
Covers what already got out, across the places it spread, and proves each secret is dead.
WHAT A GATE CAN’T REACH
Three places the gate doesn’t help
01
Secrets don’t stay in GitHub.
They land in Slack, Jira, and Confluence, in CI logs, in cloud storage, on laptops, in vaults, and on the public internet. 53% of the secrets we find sit outside code entirely.
Slack
Jira
Confluence
CI logs
Cloud storage
Laptops
Vaults
Public internet
53%
of the secrets we find are outside code
2023 commit
Force-pushed
Fork
GATE
New commit
Everything left of the gate was already out before it existed.
03
Blocking isn’t revoking.
Push protection stops a new secret from landing. It doesn’t tell you whether the one from eighteen months ago still authenticates, who can turn it off, or what it opens.
BLOCKED
New secret, at push
Never lands in the repo.
STILL LIVE
Old secret, 18 months out
Still authenticates until someone revokes it.
FROM OUR RESEARCH
Most exposed secrets are still live six months later.
That’s why TruffleHog retests each secret after the fix and records the result, so you have proof the access is gone.
Of 22,000+ verified secrets we found in public GitLab and Bitbucket repositories, 80.9% were still live six months after our first scan.
BETTER TOGETHER
GHAS keeps secrets from entering GitHub. TruffleHog Enterprise finds the ones already out, confirms which still work, routes each to whoever can revoke it, and proves the access is gone. Keep both.
Not another console to watch.
Findings flow into the tools your team already uses, like ticketing, chat, and your response automation.
See what’s already out
We’ll show you what TruffleHog Enterprise finds beyond GitHub, and which of those secrets still work.
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