You can start scanning for sensitive data in just a few minutes. Our developer-friendly API and comprehensive documentation make it easy to integrate Firewall for AI into your application. Follow our Quickstart guide at this link for step-by-step instructions on setting up the API, configuring detectors, and making your first API call.

Absolutely! In addition to the pre-built detectors, Firewall for AI allows you to create custom detectors tailored to your specific requirements. You can either fine-tune one of our pre-configured detection rules or build your own detector from scratch using our intuitive API. Nightfall supports many traditional detector types such as regular expressions, exact data matching, and word list/dictionaries. Check out our dedicated guide on creating custom detectors for more information.

Firewall for AI offers a rich set of pre-built detectors that can identify many different types of sensitive data, including personally identifiable information (PII), payment card industry data (PCI), protected health information (PHI), secrets, and credentials. These detectors are powered by advanced machine learning models and can be easily integrated into your application with just a few lines of code. Refer to our detector glossary at docs.nightfall.ai/docs/detector-glossary for a complete list of available detectors.

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We host Nightfall Developer Office Hours on Wednesdays at 12 pm PT to help answer questions, talk through any ideas, and chat about data security. We would love to see you there!

The Firewall for AI Platform differs from other solutions like Google DLP and Amazon Macie, as well as open source solutions like truffleHog, on a number of dimensions summarised below.

Accuracy

• While solutions like Google DLP have a broad set of detectors, many of them are rules or regex based, which means many of the detectors are not usable in practice. Likewise, detection has been found to be inconsistent in some cases, perhaps due to internal A/B testing.

• Because of the limitations of regex-based rules, instead of leveraging machine learning based detectors, OSS detection solutions tend to have a much higher rate of false positives compared to Nightfall.

• Detector configurability and ability to provide metrics at the token level makes Nightfall accurate and actionable to engineering & security teams.

Convenience

• Want to leave the last 4 digits of a credit card number visible, securely encrypt emails, and completely remove SSNs from your data? The Nightfall platform allows you to redact/replace, substitute, and/or encrypt sensitive data findings in the same API call as your inspection request.

Ease of use

• All inspection configuration in Google DLP is done as code, which makes it challenging to easily update, visualize, and modify detection rules and configuration. Nightfall allows for configuration as code, as well as the Nightfall Dashboard for creating and updating detection rules, which makes it easier to collaborate.

• OSS secret detection tools tend to rely heavily on manual creation of regex-based detection compared to an ability to programmatically scan text and file inputs using 150+ detectors in Nightfall – e.g. truffleHog only enables you to scan for secrets like passwords and private keys whereas Nightfall scans for not only secrets and credentials, but also allows you to use our vast detector library to scan for PII, PCI, and PHI.

File parsing

• To parse files with Google DLP and Macie, each requires that they be in their respective cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage or S3, respectively). With the Nightfall Developer Platform, we take care of storage requirements for you. Uploaded assets are stored encrypted at rest with minimal access permissions, and are automatically deleted after 24 hours.

• Amazon’s file parsers are limited to around 20 file types. Most notably, Macie does not support images. Text extraction via machine-learning based OCR for images is a core component of Nightfall’s file scanning endpoint.

• Open source secrets detection solutions are limited in their detection capabilities. Namely, these projects do not support scanning binary files. Nightfall supports binary files and the ability to scan diff files.

Platform agnostic

• Each cloud provider's DLP products are geared towards protecting their own cloud services. For example, Google DLP’s native integrations are limited to Google Cloud offerings such as BigQuery. Similarly, Macie is primarily designed around scanning AWS S3 buckets. The interface is largely geared towards exploring sensitive data across S3 buckets. To scan content outside of S3, Amazon’s recommendation is to move or replicate the data into S3 to scan, which is impractical.

• OSS solutions are primarily designed around git repositories.

• Nightfall has native integrations with many cloud applications like Slack, Atlassian, GitHub, Google Drive, as well a broad set of tutorials and open source code so you can build integrations into any data silo with ease. For example, this includes services like Snowflake, Airtable, and more.

Support and documentation

• Google DLP and Macie are loosely supported products and with many cloud offerings, support is hard to come by. Nightfall is laser-focused on best-of-breed content inspection and we are ready to address your questions and use cases.

• Nightfall also has extensive documentation including SDKs for multiple languages including Python, Java, NodeJS, and Go - with more under consistent development.

Cost and scale

• Costs can balloon quickly with commercial services. They also have rate limits that don’t suit high data volumes.

• Open source solutions have high hidden costs in the form of TCO, maintenance, and opportunity cost.

• Nightfall offers a custom enterprise tier that can help you scale pricing based on your anticipated usage as well as custom rate limits.

Firewall for AI provides a flexible and extensible API that allows you to scan a wide variety of data types, including plain text, structured and unstructured files, and even images. Our API can handle data in various formats such as JSON, XML, CSV, and more. Visit our detector glossary at docs.nightfall.ai/docs/detector-glossary to explore the comprehensive list of supported data types and file formats

Yes, you can test out the detection engine, including 70+ pre-built detectors without writing any code or having to sign up in our Playground.

Firewall for AI is a powerful API that acts as a middleware layer or client wrapper to protect your AI models from consuming sensitive data. By integrating Firewall for AI into your application via API calls, you can proactively prevent data leaks and maintain compliance without disrupting your existing workflows or model updates.

At Nightfall, data security and privacy are our top priorities. We have implemented stringent security measures to protect your sensitive data at every stage of the scanning process. All data transmitted to our API is encrypted in transit using industry-standard protocols. We adhere to best practices for secure coding, undergo regular security audits, and maintain compliance with relevant security standards. Visit our security and compliance page at nightfall.ai/security for more details on our commitment to data protection.

In two ways:

• Nightfall’s out of the box detectors can be modified with context rules and exclusion rules.

• Nightfall also supports inputting custom regular expressions or word lists (i.e. dictionaries) as detectors in the RE2 standard as documented here.

We offer a free tier that allows you to sign up and start using Firewall for AI with zero upfront costs or commitments. This tier provides a generous data scanning capacity and access to all the core features.

We offer enterprise pricing plans for advanced requirements such as higher data volumes, custom rate limits, and dedicated support. More information on pricing...

Contact our team at sales@nightfall.ai or via the contact form on our website to discuss your specific needs and get a tailored pricing quote.