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SOC 2 secret scanning, the practical version
Heading into a SOC 2 audit? Exposed credentials are a fast way to fail change-management and access controls. GhostCred scans your code, and the full report maps each finding to the SOC 2 controls it puts at risk.
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This check runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded. Paste a config file or code snippet and matches appear below as you type.
Patterns checked on this page (20)
- Private key block
- AWS access key ID
- AWS secret access key
- Stripe secret or restricted key
- Stripe webhook signing secret
- Stripe publishable key
- Anthropic API key
- OpenAI API key
- GitHub token (ghp_, gho_, ghu_, ghs_, ghr_)
- GitHub fine-grained personal access token
- GitLab personal access token
- Google API key
- Google OAuth client secret
- Slack token
- Slack incoming webhook URL
- SendGrid API key
- npm access token
- JSON Web Token
- Connection string with an inline password
- Hardcoded secret assignment (password, token, api_key, secret...)
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What the full scan checks
- ✓Hardcoded secrets that violate access-control criteria
- ✓Long-lived credentials lacking rotation
- ✓Secrets outside an approved secret manager
- ✓Evidence you can hand an auditor (a dated report)
Why it matters
Auditors increasingly ask for secret-scanning evidence. A clean, mapped report shortcuts the conversation.
Free first scan. No signup. Results in ~60 seconds.
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