Designers move fast, and real data ends up in Figma: production customer lists dropped into mockups, screenshots full of PII, API keys pasted into comments, and CSV exports attached to files. Figma has no native DLP for any of this. Strac detects sensitive data in Figma files and comments in real time and blocks it at the point of paste and upload, using its browser and endpoint DLP. Detection with user alerting keeps designers productive without leaking data into a tool that was never built to hold it.
Figma is where product gets designed, and increasingly where real production data gets pasted in for realism. A designer drops a live customer list into a table component. A PM screenshots a dashboard full of names and emails. An engineer pastes an API key into a comment to reproduce a bug. None of it belongs in a design file, and Figma has no Data Loss Prevention to stop it.
This guide covers DLP for Figma and how Strac detects and blocks sensitive data before it lands in a design.
Because Figma runs in the browser and as a desktop app, Strac inspects content at the point of use and blocks or warns before sensitive data enters a file or comment.
Figma is a browser-and-desktop app, so the right control is prevention at the point of entry, not after-the-fact cleanup. Strac's browser DLP and endpoint DLP do exactly that:
This detection-and-blocking model is how Strac delivers DLP for any web app that has no native controls, including design and whiteboard tools like Figma and Miro.
Design tools are a classic shadow IT blind spot: they are adopted bottom-up, connected to dozens of plugins, and rarely covered by the security team's DLP policies. Strac gives you visibility into what sensitive data is flowing into Figma and the ability to stop it, without banning a tool your designers rely on.
Figma's plugin ecosystem and AI features can read file content, which means any PII sitting in a design is now reachable by third-party code and assistants. Detecting and blocking sensitive data at entry keeps it out of that blast radius in the first place. The same principle drives our AI DLP approach.
No. Figma offers organization and access controls, but it has no data classification or DLP to detect and stop PII, secrets, or customer data from being pasted into files and comments. That is the gap Strac fills.
Strac protects Figma at the point of entry. Its browser and endpoint DLP detect sensitive data as it is pasted or uploaded and block or warn in real time, so the data never lands in the file. This is detection-and-prevention rather than after-the-fact redaction, which is the right model for a design tool.
Yes. Strac runs OCR on images, so PII inside a pasted dashboard screenshot or exported image is detected, not missed.
Both. Strac's endpoint DLP covers the desktop client and its browser DLP covers Figma in the browser, so designers are protected wherever they work.
No. Strac defaults to real-time detection with user alerting, so designers get a warning to remove sensitive data rather than a hard wall, and security still gets the audit trail. Compare approaches in our best DLP solutions guide.
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