🔒 We deeply care about the privacy and security of our users at Pervaziv AI. Cortex and the DevSecOps suite of products provide various capabilities to write new code, scan, remediate and review code in 15+ programming languages.
🚀 We are now expanding the capabilities of Cortex to scan for personally identifiable information (PII) and sanitize web page context and attachments that are sent as context to the backend LLMs. This release includes three scanners all running within your local environment, so your data never leaves the confines of your development machine.
🛡️ The three scanners include:
⚡ Quick Scan to detect/redact sensitive data
🧠 Deep AI Privacy Scan to detect/redact PII
📁 File Sanitizer to ensure safety of input files
⚙️ Core Capabilities
🔍 Detect sensitive patterns like API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys, database URLs, email addresses, IP addresses and many other
🧠 Deep scan uses advanced AI-powered scanning to detect personal information in chat messages, attachment and context files
⚠️ Intelligently scans and then asks the user whether to cancel, redact, or send anyway when sensitive content is found
📄 File sanitizer can sanitize PDFs, images and other attachments for harmful or malicious content, PII, API keys and other sensitive data
🔄 Performs a two phase sanitization of content to identify harmful content and render the final output
✨ Benefits
⚡ Quick scan provides instant results with minimal overhead
🔍 Deep scan performs a more thorough analysis and flag issues
🛡️ File sanitizer ensures safety of both user’s and Cortex’s backend components
🔒 Sensitive data is checked before it leaves the user’s machine
🚫 Ensures third party tools and vendors cannot inadvertently train on user data
📌 Conclusion
The scanner fits into the existing chat flow instead of acting like a separate tool. The quick scanner is fast and lightweight for common secrets and PII, while the Deep AI Privacy Scanner provides stronger detection for less obvious sensitive content. The file sanitizer is another tool embedded seamlessly into your chat workflow.
🚀 With the Cortex 3.7 – Deep AI Privacy Scanner release, we are making privacy and security first class citizens in all your workflows.
Availability
All scanners can be enabled or disabled based on your preference, so you are in total control at all times.
You can install the latest version of Cortex 3.7 in Microsoft VSCode Marketplace.
Deep AI Privacy Scanner will be available in 3 of your favorite browsers in the next approved drop by the respective Marketplace teams:
You can install Cortex in 3 popular IDEs:
