Overview

What is HoundDog.ai?

HoundDog.ai is an ultra-fast static code scanner which helps organizations with the following use cases:

• Proactive PII Leak Prevention: Detect PII (Personally Identifiable Information) leaks in logs, files, cookies, tokens, and third-party APIs early in the release cycle to strengthen data security and avoid costly remediation.
• Third-Party Risk Mitigation: Track third-party application data flows and detect data processing agreement violations before deploying new changes to production.
• Automatic Data Mapping for Privacy Compliance: Eliminate manual and error-prone documentation of processing activities that rely on spreadsheets and developer surveys. Streamline the entire process and avoid surprises by keeping pace with development.

Free Features

• Source code scanning with our standalone binary or Docker image.
• Markdown reports that provide point-in-time views of the sensitive data elements in your codebase, including their sensitivity levels, occurrence counts, file locations, and code snippets.

Paid Features

• Continuous monitoring of PII leaks, including email and Slack notifications.

• Graphical data flow visualizations.

• Integration with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.

• Security dashboard integration with GitHub Enterprise and GitLab Ultimate.

• Access to the HoundDog.ai Cloud Platform for:

  • Triaging issues and creating Jira tickets.
  • Generating RoPA (Record of Processing Activities) reports.
  • Configuring scan rules, data elements and sanitizers.
  • Permission control.
  • Audit logs

• IDE plugins for JetBrains, Eclipse and VS Code.

• Network broker enabling on-premise services such as Bitbucket Data Center.

• Managed scans using HoundDog.ai's infrastructure.

• Please see our pricing page for more details.

How is it different?

• 100% Complementary: Our goal is not to replace CodeQL, Semgrep, Snyk etc., but to fill an existing gap and be the best-in-class solution for PII leak detection. HoundDog.ai extensively covers CWE-201, CWE-209, CWE-312, CWE-313, CWE-315, CWE-532, CWE-539.
• Privacy-Focused: By default, HoundDog.ai's code scanner operates solely within your environment, ensuring that your source code never leaves your premises.
• Blazingly Fast with a Tiny Footprint: Written in Rust - a language renowned for its performance, memory safety, and portability -HoundDog.ai's code scanner can process 1 million lines of code in under a minute on modern hardware. The unzipped binary is less than 30MB in size, making it super lightweight with minimal impact on your workflows.
• Highly Accurate: We maintain a meticulously curated set of rules and definitions covering multiple domains (e.g., PII, PHI, PIFI) out of the box, prioritizing the elimination of false positives. These rules are enhanced through AI workflows, reviewed by human experts, and tested against real-world scenarios.

Contact

If you need any help or would like to send us feedback, please shoot us an email at [email protected].