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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/02/2026 > sift-open-source-secret-scanning

Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (323+ words) Colin Watson is CTO at Stratus Security and works the engagements himself. “For example, on my most recent pentest there were thousands of credentials in Jira ticket comments found by this tool and their pentester for 5 years prior had never…...