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  • Sensitive Data Protection
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  • Firewall for AI
  • Welcome
  • Introduction to Firewall for AI
    • Overview
    • Quickstart
    • Use Cases
    • Authentication and Security
  • Key Concepts
    • Entities and Terms to Know
    • Setting Up Nightfall
      • Creating API Key
      • Creating Detectors
      • Creating Detection Rules
      • Creating Policies
    • Alerting
    • Scanning Text
    • Scanning Files
      • Supported File Types
      • File Scanning and Webhooks
      • Uploading and Scanning API Calls
      • Special File Types
      • Specialized File Detectors
      • Webhooks and Asynchronous Notifications
        • Accessing Your Webhook Signing Key
        • Creating a Webhook Server
    • Scanning Features
      • Using Pre-Configured Detection Rules
        • Scanning Images for patterns using Custom Regex Detectors
      • Creating an Inline Detection Rule
      • Using Exclusion Rules
      • Using Context Rules
      • Using Redaction
      • Using Policies to Send Alerts
      • Detecting Secrets
      • PHI Detection Rules
    • Detector Glossary
    • Test Datasets
    • Errors
    • Nightfall Playground
  • Nightfall APIs
    • DLP APIs - Firewall for AI Platform
      • Scan Plain Text
      • Initiate File Upload
      • Upload File Chunk
      • Complete File Upload
      • Scan Uploaded File
      • Rate Limits for Firewall APIs
    • DLP APIs - Native SaaS Apps
      • Fetch Violations
      • Fetch Violations by ID
      • Search Violations
      • Fetch Violation Findings
      • Take Action on Violations
      • Fetch Annotations
      • Annotate Findings
      • Remove Annotation Findings
      • Fetch GitHub Repositories
      • Policy User Scope Update API
      • Rate Limits for Native SaaS app APIs
  • Nightfall Software Development Kit (SDK)
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      • OpenAI Prompt Sanitization Tutorial
      • Anthropic Prompt Sanitization Tutorial
      • LangChain Prompt Sanitization Tutorial
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      • Amazon Kinesis DLP Tutorial
      • Amazon RDS DLP Tutorial
      • Amazon RDS DLP Tutorial - Full Scan
      • Amazon S3 DLP Tutorial
      • Elasticsearch DLP Tutorial
      • Snowflake DLP Tutorial
  • Nightfall Use Cases
    • Overview
    • GenAI Content Filtering-How to prevent exposure of sensitive data
    • Redacting Sensitive Data in 4 Lines of Code
    • Detecting Sensitive Data in SMS Automations
    • Building Endpoint DLP to Detect PII on Your Machine in Real-Time
    • Deploy a File Scanner for Sensitive Data in 40 Lines of Code
    • Using Scan API (with Python)
  • FAQs
    • What Can I do with the Firewall for AI
    • How quickly can I get started with Firewall for AI?
    • What types of data can I scan with API?
    • What types of detectors are supported out of the box?
    • Can I customize or bring my own detectors?
    • What is the pricing model?
    • How do I know my data is secure?
    • How do I get in touch with you?
    • Can I test out the detection and my own detection rules before writing any code?
    • How does Nightfall support custom data types?
    • How does Nightfall's Firewall for AI differs from other solutions?
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  1. Key Concepts
  2. Setting Up Nightfall

Creating API Key

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Last updated 11 months ago

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The API expects an API Key to be passed via the Authorization: Bearer <key> HTTP header.

To create and manage API keys:

  1. Log in to Nightfall.

  2. Click Overview under the Firewall for AI section.

  1. Click Create key.

The Generate API Key window is displayed.

  1. Enter a name for the API key and click Create.

The API key is generated and displayed (blurred in the following image). Click the copy button to copy the API key and store it in a. secure location. Once you click the Got it button, you cannot retrieve the API key again.

🚧Be Sure to Record the API Key's Value

For security reasons, after closing the window, you will not be able to recover the key's value.

Once you close the window, the My API Keys page will display your newly generated key, with the majority of the Key redacted.

You can return to the Overview page at any time to create new keys (assuming your license allows you to generate additional keys) or delete old keys.