Who does Truffle Security fit?

Its customer stories describe organisations that scan source code together with collaboration tools such as Jira, Slack, and Confluence, and one of them works in customer data and marketing automation. TruffleHog can run on isolated servers operated by Truffle Security or on servers the customer runs. TruffleHog also offers on-premise scanners for sources on an internal network.

How does CISO Tribune file Truffle Security?

CISO Tribune files Truffle Security under Secrets detection, with Non-human identity security as a secondary category.

Where is Truffle Security headquartered?

Truffle Security is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

Who owns Truffle Security?

Truffle Security is privately held.

Company record · security vendor

Truffle Security

Where Truffle Security appears on the record (49)

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In the vendor directory (2): Secrets detection vendors · primary category
Non-human identity security vendors · category

What the company sells

Truffle Security is the company behind TruffleHog, an open-source security project. Truffle Security was founded by career security experts. Truffle Security is backed by venture capital firms such as a16z.

Truffle Security says agentic AI is multiplying the non-human identities in an environment, and many of them depend on credentials that can leak. Truffle Security states that non-human identity secrets, including API keys, passwords, and tokens, leak from sources like source code, chat systems, and support tickets. TruffleHog finds, verifies, and helps remediate exposed secrets across code, cloud, and other places where they hide.

TruffleHog scans hidden content, deleted code, and version history from GitHub, Google Cloud, Slack, and other commonly used tools. TruffleHog looks for secrets in GitHub comments and pull requests. TruffleHog integrates with more than 20 platforms and tools. TruffleHog integrates with Git repositories to scan for secrets before they are committed. TruffleHog scans released artifacts for leaked secrets introduced during the build process. TruffleHog works with continuous integration platforms to scan code during the build process.

TruffleHog Analyze identifies the resources and permissions associated with NHIs, API keys, and other secrets without requiring access to a provider's UI. TruffleHog Analyze works with TruffleHog Enterprise to reveal secret ownership, access scope, and permissions.

Optro chose TruffleHog Enterprise for its detectors and integrations. Optro detects exposed secrets across source code, Jira, Slack, and S3 application logs, and routes findings into its SecOps workflows. Findings from Optro's scans move into Tines for investigation and response. TextNow finds exposed secrets across source code, Jira, and Confluence, and confirms they are rotated before closing the incident. With TruffleHog Enterprise at TextNow, verification helps the team decide which exposures require immediate response. Klaviyo is a customer data and marketing automation company.

Each customer's installation of TruffleHog is hosted in its own private environment with an isolated database instance, which is encrypted at rest. TruffleHog supports single sign-on through SAML 2.0 or OAuth 2.0 workflows. Every deployment of TruffleHog receives randomly generated and securely stored infrastructure credentials. Scanning for secrets in TruffleHog occurs in memory so that the scanned data is never persisted to storage. Never storing customers' secrets is fundamental to the design of TruffleHog. Truffle Security states that the details of customers' findings are never sent to third parties. TruffleHog can run on isolated servers operated by Truffle Security or on servers the customer runs. With the on-premise scanners, customers can scan sources on their internal network and keep source credentials inside their own infrastructure with a local configuration. Deployments and updates of TruffleHog are automatic.^{[1][2][5][6][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Categories: Secrets detection (primary category)
Non-human identity security
Compare Truffle Security with companies in the same category
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States^[3]
Founded: Not established from our sources
Ownership: Privately held^[7]
CISO on record: Not yet on our record. Send a verified source
Website: trufflesecurity.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

TruffleHog^{[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}
Uncovers exposed non-human identities and their secrets.
TruffleHog scans hidden content, deleted code, and version history from GitHub, Google Cloud, Slack, and other commonly used tools. TruffleHog looks for secrets in GitHub comments and pull requests. TruffleHog integrates with more than 20 platforms and tools. TruffleHog scans released artifacts for leaked secrets introduced during the build process.
TruffleHog Analyze^[1][5][10]
Identifies the resources and permissions associated with NHIs, API keys, and other secrets.
TruffleHog Analyze identifies the resources and permissions associated with NHIs, API keys, and other secrets without requiring access to a provider's UI. TruffleHog Analyze works with TruffleHog Enterprise to reveal secret ownership, access scope, and permissions.
TruffleHog Enterprise^[1][10][11]
Used by Optro and TextNow to detect exposed secrets across source code and collaboration tools.
Optro chose TruffleHog Enterprise for its detectors and integrations. Optro detects exposed secrets across source code, Jira, Slack, and S3 application logs, and routes findings into its SecOps workflows. Findings from Optro's scans move into Tines for investigation and response. With TruffleHog Enterprise at TextNow, verification helps the team decide which exposures require immediate response.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of Truffle Security's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

On secrets detection, Truffle Security competes with GitGuardian, Clutch Security, HashiCorp, Endor Labs, GitHub Advanced Security, GitLab, JFrog, Legit Security, Semgrep and Snyk.
On non-human identity security, Truffle Security competes with Clutch Security, Aembit, Akeyless, Astrix Security, AuthMind, Cygrid, Infisical, NewCore, Oasis Security, Token Security and 30 more.

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

[1]trufflesecurity.comTruffle Security · trufflesecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[2]Truffle security raises 25 million series b to expand nhi security 302606933Truffle Security via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published November 6, 2025 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[3]Terms conditionsTruffle Security · trufflesecurity.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[4]Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of Hugging Face Training Data for SecretsTruffle Security Co. · published June 1, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[5]Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[6]About ◆ Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[7]Security ◆ Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[8]Meet Truffle Security at Black Hat 2026 - Booth 5727Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[9]Integrations ◆ Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[10]Klaviyo Customer Story ◆ Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[11]Optro Customer Story ◆ Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[12]Customers ◆ Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
[13]TextNow Customer Story ◆ Truffle Security Co.Truffle Security · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

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Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 10, 2026 from the references above.

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Security leadership

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Questions CISOs ask about Truffle Security

What does Truffle Security sell?: Truffle Security sells TruffleHog, TruffleHog Analyze and TruffleHog Enterprise. TruffleHog: Uncovers exposed non-human identities and their secrets. TruffleHog Analyze: Identifies the resources and permissions associated with NHIs, API keys, and other secrets. TruffleHog Enterprise: Used by Optro and TextNow to detect exposed secrets across source code and collaboration tools.
Who does Truffle Security fit?: Its customer stories describe organisations that scan source code together with collaboration tools such as Jira, Slack, and Confluence, and one of them works in customer data and marketing automation. TruffleHog can run on isolated servers operated by Truffle Security or on servers the customer runs. TruffleHog also offers on-premise scanners for sources on an internal network.
How does CISO Tribune file Truffle Security?: CISO Tribune files Truffle Security under Secrets detection, with Non-human identity security as a secondary category.
Where is Truffle Security headquartered?: Truffle Security is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
Who owns Truffle Security?: Truffle Security is privately held.

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