Use Case · Secret Detection

Secret Detection & Credential Leak Prevention.

Catch secrets before they reach the repo. Rotate fast when they do. Gitleaks plus Lino inline detection at commit time, deep history scanning on existing repos, and an automated rotation workflow wired into your secret manager.

<60 ms
Inline pre-commit verdict
99.4%
True-positive rate on credentials
<3 min
Rotation pipeline end-to-end
100%
Deep-history coverage on first scan

Secrets Leak In Four Predictable Ways.

Most secret leaks aren't exotic. They're a hardcoded .env, a forgotten config file, a hardcoded test fixture, a debug log that escaped to a public repo. The hard part isn't detection — it's catching them at the right moment and rotating quickly enough.

01

Commit-time scanners run too late

Most secret scanners run in CI, after the push. By then the credential is in the remote, and the rotation timer started ten minutes ago. The window between commit and rotation is the breach window.

02

Deep-history scans rarely happen

Every team has a couple of repos with 8 years of history and unknown secret hygiene. Scanning the full git history is slow and noisy, so nobody runs it. The leaked credentials sit in old refs forever.

03

Detection isn&apos;t the same as rotation

You find the leaked key. Then someone has to log into the AWS console, find the right IAM user, rotate the credential, update three deployment environments, and verify nothing broke. That&apos;s a two-hour manual chore that often slips a day.

04

Secret managers exist, devs still bypass them

You bought Vault. You wrote a policy. Engineers still hardcode dev credentials for &quot;just a minute&quot; and forget. Without an inline check, intentions don&apos;t matter.

The Inline-To-Rotation Pipeline

Block Before Commit, Rotate When Past.

Stage 1 — Inline Detection

Gitleaks rules and the Lino inline model run together in the pre-commit hook. The hook denies the commit before it hits the remote, with a sub-60ms verdict and a one-line explanation.

Gitleaks rule set + Lino
<60 ms pre-commit verdict
Runs locally, no cloud round-trip

Stage 2 — History Scan

First-run deep scan against the full git history of every repo. Branches, tags, dangling refs, packfiles. Findings deduplicated and surfaced in the secrets dashboard, ranked by rotation urgency.

Full-history + dangling refs
De-duped finding stream
Rotation-urgency ranking

Stage 3 — Rotation Workflow

Confirmed leaked credentials flow into a rotation pipeline. The platform talks to Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Azure Key Vault to mint a replacement, updates the deployment surface, and revokes the old credential when traffic confirms the cutover.

Vault + AWS + Azure integration
Auto-revoke after traffic cutover
Audit-grade rotation timeline
Leak-To-Rotated Timeline

When A Secret Slips Past Inline.

A Real Rotation

  1. t = 0Push

    Engineer pushed an AWS access key in a debug fixture from a laptop without the pre-commit hook installed.

  2. t + 8 sServer-side

    Server-side scan on the remote catches the leak. Push is rejected; engineer notified inline.

  3. t + 25 sEngine

    Key fingerprint resolved against AWS to identify the IAM user and active permissions.

  4. t + 45 sVault

    Replacement credential minted in AWS Secrets Manager and rotated into the deployment env.

  5. t + 1m 30sCutover

    Traffic on the new credential confirmed via probe. Old credential revoked.

  6. t + 2m 50sEvidence

    Signed rotation timeline filed for audit. Engineer gets a one-page write-up of what happened.

Integrations Out Of The Box

The platform speaks to the secret managers your team already runs. No sidecar credential store.

HashiCorp Vault

Token rotation, dynamic credentials, AppRole bootstrap.

AWS Secrets Manager

Automatic rotation on detection, multi-region replication.

Azure Key Vault

Managed identity rotation, certificate replacement.

GCP Secret Manager

Versioned secrets, IAM-bound rotation policies.

GitHub + GitLab tokens

PAT rotation via OAuth app, fine-grained scope replacement.

Cloud provider keys

AWS / Azure / GCP IAM credential rotation end-to-end.

Custom HTTP webhook

For in-house secret stores; signed rotation request.

Engineering Case

How A Platform Team Cleared Eight Years Of Git History In A Weekend

A mid-stage SaaS company ran the deep-history scan against 142 repos over a single weekend. The scan surfaced 84 credentials in old refs — 31 still active across AWS, GitHub, and a third-party billing API. The automated rotation pipeline replaced all 31 within four hours of confirmation. The post-mortem closed the loop: the offending repos had pre-commit hooks installed, the gap was branches pushed from CI runners. The platform's server-side check now blocks the same path.

142 repos
Deep-history scan
31 active
Credentials rotated
<4h
End-to-end rotation

Stop secrets at commit. Rotate the rest fast.

Book a demo and we'll run a deep-history scan against one of your repos and walk through a live rotation in your sandbox.