Improved secrets management in Snyk API & Web

We are enhancing how secrets and sensitive data are managed in Snyk API & Web. Effective today, you can designate specific fields as sensitive within your target settings, ensuring their values are automatically masked. Furthermore, Account Owners now have a new level of control with the ability to make sensitive information permanently non-retrievable after it is saved.

This enhancement is designed to significantly reduce the risk of accidental information disclosure and prevent unauthorized access to your sensitive data. By giving you granular control to define and mask specific fields, we are moving beyond a reliance on simplistic patterns and heuristics. The option to make secrets non-retrievable adds a critical layer of security, ensuring that once a secret is stored, it cannot be exposed again through the application.

This update introduces two key changes:

• For Account Owners: A new module is available on the Settings > Authentication page. This allows Account Owners to enforce that all designated sensitive information becomes non-retrievable for everyone in the account once saved.

• For all users: When configuring a target, you will now see a 'Mark as sensitive' checkbox for relevant fields. Selecting this option will automatically mask the field's value after it is saved. This applies to configurations such as:

  • API authentication payload

  • Login form

  • Login sequence

  • Basic authentication credentials

  • Custom headers and authentication headers

  • Custom cookies and authentication cookies

  • API Parameter Custom Values

  • Postman Environment Values

To learn more, visit How to manage secrets and sensitive data in Snyk API & Web in our user documentation.