Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and GitGuardian Platform both compete in the data protection and compliance category. Both have strong offerings, but each has advantages in particular environments; Microsoft Purview in regulatory compliance and GitGuardian in development-centric environments.
Features: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention offers robust compliance features, auto-labeling capabilities, and seamless Microsoft ecosystem integration for widespread data protection. It is preferable for global compliance requirements. GitGuardian Platform excels in rapid and accurate secret detection across software repositories, fast alerting, and effective remediation, making it ideal for development environments with its low false-positive rate and extensive integration support.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft Purview could benefit from simpler label configuration, enhanced third-party integration especially in source code, improved technical support, and richer endpoint features. GitGuardian could enhance integration with other software tools, improve user role management, and develop better automated feedback systems, while also extending its capabilities for specific regulatory needs of smaller or uniquely situated enterprises.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Purview leads with flexible deployment options including public, private, and hybrid clouds, although technical support receives mixed reviews for its response times. Its documentation partially compensates for this. GitGuardian, supporting both public and on-premises environments, is noted for its effective technical support and easy deployment, with its documentation also receiving praise.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, part of the E5 license, is critiqued for high costs but integrates effectively with Microsoft tools, providing good ROI by eliminating the need for third-party solutions. GitGuardian is seen as expensive for larger teams but offers value in security assurance, its competitive pricing strategy includes a free tier, ensuring outstanding ROI by mitigating security risks in software development.
I can certainly say that we have saved significant time and resources in terms of people and automation.
The majority of our incidents for critical detectors and important secret types are remediated automatically or proactively by developers through GitGuardian's notification system, without security team involvement.
I would rate their technical support a nine out of ten.
I would rate the technical support as excellent.
Once we got to the Microsoft engineers, the experience was great.
In terms of scalability, I would rate it around a ten out of ten, as it handles all the repositories and commit activity we have.
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
Currently, what GitGuardian Platform is doing works effectively.
The policy working and detection technology need enhancements.
We set up a lot of the repository, so GitGuardian is a required check.
The SaaS platform has experienced two significant moments of downtime or instability in the last six months, requiring notices and retrospectives.
I would rate the stability of the GitGuardian Platform as excellent with no downtimes.
Sometimes the solution is not stable when the internal connection is not reliable, so this aspect needs improvement.
Another thing that would be good to see is some more metrics on the usage of the GitGuardian pre-push hooks.
The self-healing activity by developers isn't reflected in the analytics, requiring us to collect this data ourselves.
We are looking for better metrics and audit data, wanting more features such as knowing which users are creating the most secrets or committing the most secrets, what repository, what directory, and who is not checking in secrets.
Implementing a degree of severity ranking is essential.
Endpoint Data Loss Prevention needs to be improved as it is not up to expectations.
Overall, the secret detection sector is expensive, but we are happy with the value we get.
It's fairly priced, as it performs a lot of analysis and is a valuable tool.
One of the best features of the solution is the ability to use pre-push hooks.
A high number of our exposures are remediated by developers before security needs to step in, as the self-healing playbook process engages them automatically.
GitGuardian Platform performs the capability to detect secrets in real time exceptionally, as it activates from the commit and can detect it immediately.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention usually performs well, except for endpoint Data Loss Prevention, which may need improvements.
The feature I find most valuable that I'm currently using is the quickness of the emails that the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention solution sends to us, where we get notifications that say a user has potentially breached our data guideline rules, and we get those alerts continuously, allowing us to enforce them manually.
GitGuardian helps organizations detect and fix vulnerabilities in source code at every step of the software development lifecycle. With GitGuardian’s policy engine, security teams can monitor and enforce rules across their VCS, DevOps tools, and infrastructure-as-code configurations.
Widely adopted by developer communities, GitGuardian is used by more than 500,000 developers and is the #1 app in the security category on the GitHub Marketplace. GitGuardian is also trusted by leading companies, including Instacart, Genesys, Orange, Iress, Beyond Identity, NOW: Pensions, and Stedi.
GitGuardian Platform includes automated secrets detection and remediation. By reducing the risks of secrets exposure across the SDLC, GitGuardian helps software-driven organizations strengthen their security posture and comply with frameworks and standards.
Its detection engine is trained against more than a billion public GitHub commits every year, and it covers 350+ types of secrets such as API keys, database connection strings, private keys, certificates, and more.
GitGuardian brings security and development teams together with automated remediation playbooks and collaboration features to resolve incidents fast and in full. By pulling developers closer to the remediation process, organizations can achieve higher incident closing rates and shorter fix times.
The platform integrates across the DevOps toolchain, including native support for continuously scanning VCS platforms like GitHub, Gitlab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket or CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, GitLab pipelines, and many more. It also integrates with ticketing and messaging systems like Splunk, PagerDuty, Jira and Slack to support teams with their incident remediation workflows. GitGuardian is offered as a SaaS platform but can also be hosted on-premise for organizations operating in highly regulated industries or with strict data privacy requirements.
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