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Find Sensitive Information in Log Files with Python

Scan log files for emails, IP addresses, API keys, and passwords using regular expressions in Python.

regex security log-analysis
Python
import re
import os
from pathlib import Path

def find_sensitive_info(log_path):
    """Scans log files for patterns like emails, IPs, API keys, and passwords."""
    patterns = {
        'Email': r'[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}',
        'IP Address': r'\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b',
        'API Key'…
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