What you'll learn

Secrets exposure remains a common and high-impact security risk, often enabling attackers to access sensitive data or move deeper into an environment. In this course, Memory Analysis with TruffleHog, you will learn how to detect and investigate exposed credentials across source code, repositories, and local file systems using practical secret-scanning techniques. First, you will examine how attackers abuse leaked credentials and how these exposures align with MITRE ATT&CK techniques related to unsecured credentials and data discovery. Next, you will configure and use TruffleHog to scan Git repositories and file systems, identifying secrets through entropy analysis and regex-based detection. Finally, you will analyze and validate findings, assess exposure risk, and map detections to MITRE SHIELD techniques focused on file and memory analysis. By the end of this course, you will have the skills to use TruffleHog in real-world incident response, threat hunting, and detection workflows, enabling you to identify exposed secrets, understand their impact, and apply structured defensive analysis.