public sealed class SecretsDiscoveryTarget : IMessage<SecretsDiscoveryTarget>, IEquatable<SecretsDiscoveryTarget>, IDeepCloneable<SecretsDiscoveryTarget>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention v2 API class SecretsDiscoveryTarget.
Discovery target for credentials and secrets in cloud resource metadata.
This target does not include any filtering or frequency controls. Cloud
DLP will scan cloud resource metadata for secrets daily.
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Class SecretsDiscoveryTarget (4.19.0)\n\nVersion latestkeyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [4.19.0 (latest)](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.18.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.18.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.17.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.17.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.16.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.16.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.15.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.15.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.14.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.14.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.13.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.13.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.12.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.12.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.11.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.11.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.10.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.10.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.9.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.9.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.8.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.8.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.7.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.7.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.6.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.6.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.5.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.5.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.4.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.4.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.3.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.3.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.2.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.2.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.1.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.1.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [4.0.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.0.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [3.5.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.5.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [3.4.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.4.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [3.3.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.3.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [3.2.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.2.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [2.16.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/2.16.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n- [2.15.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/2.15.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget) \n\n public sealed class SecretsDiscoveryTarget : IMessage\u003cSecretsDiscoveryTarget\u003e, IEquatable\u003cSecretsDiscoveryTarget\u003e, IDeepCloneable\u003cSecretsDiscoveryTarget\u003e, IBufferMessage, IMessage\n\nReference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention v2 API class SecretsDiscoveryTarget.\n\nDiscovery target for credentials and secrets in cloud resource metadata.\n\nThis target does not include any filtering or frequency controls. Cloud\nDLP will scan cloud resource metadata for secrets daily.\n\nNo inspect template should be included in the discovery config for a\nsecurity benchmarks scan. Instead, the built-in list of secrets and\ncredentials infoTypes will be used (see\n\u003chttps://cloud.google.com/sensitive-data-protection/docs/infotypes-reference#credentials_and_secrets\u003e).\n\nCredentials and secrets discovered will be reported as vulnerabilities to\nSecurity Command Center. \n\nInheritance\n-----------\n\n[object](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object) \\\u003e SecretsDiscoveryTarget \n\nImplements\n----------\n\n[IMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IMessage-1.html)[SecretsDiscoveryTarget](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget), [IEquatable](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.iequatable-1)[SecretsDiscoveryTarget](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget), [IDeepCloneable](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IDeepCloneable-1.html)[SecretsDiscoveryTarget](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.SecretsDiscoveryTarget), [IBufferMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IBufferMessage.html), [IMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IMessage.html) \n\nInherited Members\n-----------------\n\n[object.GetHashCode()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.gethashcode) \n[object.GetType()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.gettype) \n[object.ToString()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.tostring)\n\nNamespace\n---------\n\n[Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2)\n\nAssembly\n--------\n\nGoogle.Cloud.Dlp.V2.dll\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### SecretsDiscoveryTarget()\n\n public SecretsDiscoveryTarget()\n\n### SecretsDiscoveryTarget(SecretsDiscoveryTarget)\n\n public SecretsDiscoveryTarget(SecretsDiscoveryTarget other)"]]
