Introducing Notion Scanner: Your Notion-Native Privacy and Secrets Scanner

Notion has become the digital workspace of choice for thousands of teams—serving as a wiki, project management hub, and knowledge base. But as Notion adoption grows, so does the risk of sensitive data exposure. It’s all too easy for passwords, API keys, and other secrets to be accidentally pasted into pages, databases, or comments. Once there, these secrets can be silently exposed to anyone with access, including external guests, or even indexed by search engines if pages are shared publicly.

Notion Scanner is built by the same team who built Notion Rooms, a Notion-native dataroom solution. This problem is especially acute in data rooms, where confidential documents are routinely shared during due diligence, financial transactions, or M&A processes. While virtual data rooms are built with security in mind (offering encryption, access controls, and audit trails) human error remains a significant vulnerability. In fact, up to 74% of data breaches in these environments involve a human element, such as accidentally leaving sensitive information like passwords or API keys in shared documents. Even the most advanced data rooms can’t fully prevent accidental exposure if secrets are embedded in the content itself, making proactive scanning and detection essential.

Secret scanning tools have become standard in code repositories, but Notion workspaces are often overlooked, despite containing just as much (if not more) sensitive information.

Notion Scanner is Super Intuitive

Seamless Notion Integration:

• Connect your Notion workspace in a few clicks.
• Notion Scanner reads all accessible pages, databases, and comments—no need for manual exports or uploads. It does not read external content such as files, or linked resources, or embeds.

State-of-the-Art AI Driven Scanning:

• The platform then uses advanced pattern recognition and state-of-the-art AI-driven detectors to identify secrets such as:
  • Passwords
  • API keys
  • Database credentials
  • Private certificates
  • Tokens and proprietary secrets

Actionable Alerts and Remediation

• Receive periodic alerts for when secrets are found - Notion pages change regularly and that is a strength, but also a vulnerability
• No frills reports: see exactly where the secret is so you can take actions for redacting the data - no more, no less

Privacy-First and Notion-Native

• Notion Scanner never stores all of your workspace data; it scans, reports findings, and forgets everything it does not need
• Designed for Notion’s unique structure—works across pages and databases