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BlinkTrustAI for Visual Studio Code

BlinkTrustAI's Sencitive Data Discovery provided by BlinkTrustAI.com helps you find helps you discover, monitor & prevent data privacy & compliance issues for 50+ global data privacy regulations. Within a few seconds, the extension will provide a list of all the different types of Data identified and with audit reports.

  • Automate - We automate privacy and compliance with integrations to existing Software and IT lifecycle management tools like Jira.
  • Integrate - We integrate with existing Integrated development environments (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc) to ensure data privacy & compliance is addressed in design, development, pre-deployment stage in the Software lifecycle.
  • Multi-cloud - We support on-premises, cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid with one common platform with AI and ML-powered data privacy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

BlinkTrustAI helps you discover, monitor & prevent data privacy & compliance issues for 50+ global data privacy regulations.

Supported Data Source

Currently supported languages for BlinkTrustAI file are CSV, TXT, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python and C#, PHP, MongoDB, MsSQL, MySQL, many other. We analyze files as defined by the following list: csv, txt, md, aspx, CS, ejs, .es, .es6, .htm, .html, .js, .jsx, .ts, .tsx, .vue, .py, .java.

Install the extension

You can find the BlinkTrustAI Extension in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. To install, either:

  • Navigate to the BlinkTrustAI Extension on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace and follow the instructions for the BlinkTrustAI extension. The docs from VS Code help you trigger the installation process from Visual Studio Code and guide you through the installation steps.

  • Browse for the extension as advised here and search for BlinkTrustAI, then install (as described here).

Once installed you can find a BlinkTrustAI icon in the sidebar extension icon.

BlinkTrustAI's extension provides all the suggestions in a concise and clean view containing all information:

Suggestion example

Authentication

To authenticate follow the steps:

  1. Once the extension is installed, click on the BlinkTrustAI Icon in the left navigation bar, to show the following screen: Authentication

  2. Click Get Started. The extension relies on the GitHub authentication API and it will ask you to authenticate you against ypur GitHub's credentials: Authentication

  3. Authorize the BlinkTrustAI App Authenticate. Authentication

  4. After successful authentication, you will see a confirmation message: Authentication

  5. Close the browser window and return to VS Code. VS Code is now reading and saving the authentication on your local machine.

Run analysis

In the IDE you will notice that the extension is already picking up the files and uploading them for analysis.

Run analysis

Audit Report

Uninstall the extension

To uninstall extension follow the steps:

  1. Navigate to extensions from sidebar.

  2. Search for the extension. And open the plugin. Uninstall the extension

  3. There will be an option to uninstall plugin. Click on uninstall and reload the vscode.

Following extension guidelines

Ensure that you've read through the extensions guidelines and follow the best practices for creating your extension.

Working with Markdown

Note: You can author your README using Visual Studio Code. Here are some useful editor keyboard shortcuts:

  • Split the editor (Cmd+\ on macOS or Ctrl+\ on Windows and Linux)
  • Toggle preview (Shift+CMD+V on macOS or Shift+Ctrl+V on Windows and Linux)
  • Press Ctrl+Space (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Space (macOS) to see a list of Markdown snippets

For more information

Enjoy!