GitGuardian Platform Reviews

Name: GitGuardian Platform
Brand: GitGuardian
Rating: 4 (21 reviews)

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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.

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GitGuardian Platform is the #2 ranked solution in top Software Supply Chain Security solutions, #4 ranked solution in top DevSecOps solutions, #6 ranked solution in AST tools, #6 ranked solution in top Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions, and #8 ranked solution in application security solutions. PeerSpot users give GitGuardian Platform an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. GitGuardian Platform is most commonly compared to SonarQube: GitGuardian Platform vs SonarQube. GitGuardian Platform is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a comms service provider, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Joan Ging

Head of Development at Inhabit

Mar 19, 2024

Recently, a new feature was added that I had been requesting for a while, and I'm super excited about it! This feature allows us to filter incidents by team within the available filters. This is incredibly helpful because before, we could only search for individual repositories. Some of our teams have hundreds of repositories, so filtering by team saves a lot of time and effort. The ability to create teams is also valuable for a large organization like ours. Some vendors struggle to provide enough user organization layers, but GitGuardian excels in this area. The core incident management features are also fantastic. For example, alerting people via email about new incidents is crucial for staying on top of things. Additionally, the dashboard allows users to mark the status of secrets, providing a convenient location to review everything. Another area where GitGuardian shines is the breadth of secret types it covers. They can identify a vast number of secrets out-of-the-box, with minimal false positives. This means they effectively distinguish real secrets from irrelevant data, saving us time and effort. I also appreciate the context provided for developers. When they investigate secrets, they can see exactly where those secrets reside in the code, allowing for quick fixes.

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Andrei Predoiu

DevOps Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

Sep 4, 2022

The most valuable feature is automatic secrets detection, which is quite intelligent. It gives us very few false positives, which is definitely worth it at the end of the day as no secrets or confidential keys are getting into our GitHub undetected. The majority of false positives are things like test credentials or dummy data that we put in for testing, etc. Therefore, it is not really feasible for GitGuardian to understand which is dummy data and which is real data. They do well in terms of false positives. They work quite hard on them. Sometimes they understand that it is dummy data. For certain types of secrets, they can check if it is being used. They will go to Microsoft and check if the key is valid in Microsoft, then tell you, "Hey, this secret is actually live somehow." This is another feature that they are working on that I like. The breadth of the solution's detection capabilities are really good. We haven't walked upon a piece of code where we question, "Oh, why isn't GitGuardian picking this up?" That's for sure. If there are some secrets in our Git that we don't know about and GitGuardian hasn't found it, I don't think it is likely that we will.

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Jon-Erik Schneiderhan

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 27, 2022

The secrets detection and alerting is the most important feature. We get alerted almost immediately after someone commits a secret. It has been very accurate, allowing us to jump on it right away, then figure out if we have something substantial that has been leaked or whether it is something that we don't have to worry about. This general main feature of the app is great. Recently, they added a feature that checks the validity of leaked secrets. It will actually reach out and see if the secret that leaked was valid or not. I have found, over the past couple months, this to be a super useful feature. We can go through a lot of the secrets in our code base, which have been detected, and dismiss them if we know that they are invalid secrets that can't be used anyway. This saves us a bunch of time, which is why this has been a really neat feature that has been useful. I have found that I have been very satisfied with the breadth of the solution's detection capabilities. I don't think it has missed anything. The false positive rate has been very low. Every single time something is detected, it is something that we should look at. It does a very good job of detecting things that we should look at and make a decision on. We don't waste a lot of time chasing down false positives. This means that we feel safe because we don't have valid credentials sitting in our code repositories. If any of our code was breached or any of our developer work stations were compromised or stolen, no one would be able to get valid API credentials out of the Git repositories on those workstations. The solution helps to quickly prioritize remediation because it allows us to tell which keys are valid versus which ones are invalid. We prioritize the valid ones first. It also lets us sort by detection type, e.g., what kind of secret is it detecting. There are ones that we would obviously prioritize over others, like SSH keys or AWS credentials, versus less sensitive credentials that aren't as concerning. I think it does a great job of helping us prioritize. GitGuardian provides a feedback form feature that we utilize heavily. When a secret is detected, our process is to generate a feedback form link in GitGuardian, then provide that to the developer. The developer will give us contextual information about the secret, then we can take action. They have also recently released a feature, which we haven't started using yet, called automated playbooks where you can set it up to automatically create that feedback form. Then, it will be emailed to the developer so they get automatically notified that they introduce a secret with a feedback form to fill out. I suspect this will improve our developer's ability to resolve the secrets faster.

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GitGuardian Platform market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of GitGuardian Platform in the Application Security Tools category stands at 0.2%, marking an increase of 18.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Mar 17, 2024

Valuable Features

"Some of our teams have hundreds of repositories, so filtering by team saves a lot of time and effort."
"I like GitGuardian's instant response. When you have an incident, it's reported immediately. The interface gives you a great overview of your current leaked secrets."
"It's also worth mentioning that GitGuardian is unique because they have a free tier that we've been using for the first twelve months. It provides full functionality for smaller teams. We're a smaller company and have never changed in size, but we got to the point where we felt the service brought us value, and we want to pay for it. We also wanted an SLA for technical support and whatnot, so we switched to a paid plan. Without that, they had a super-generous, free tier, and I was immensely impressed with it."

Room for Improvement

"We have encountered occasional difficulties with the Single Sign-On process."
"GitGuardian encompasses many secrets that companies might have, but we are a Microsoft-only organization, so there are some limitations there in terms of their honey tokens. I'd like for it to not be limited to Amazon-based tokens. It would be nice to see a broader set of providers that you could pick from."
"The purchasing process is convoluted compared to Snyk, the other tool we use. It's like night and day because you only need to punch in your credit card, and you're set. With GitGuardian, getting a quote took two or three weeks. We paid for it in December but have not settled that payment yet."

Pricing

"GitGuardian is on the pricier side."
"I compared the solution to a couple of other solutions, and I think it is very competitively priced."
"The pricing is reasonable. GitGuardian is one of the most recent security tools we've adopted. When it came time to renew it, there was no doubt about it. It is licensed per developer, so it scales nicely with the number of repos that we have. We can create new repositories and break up work. It isn't scaling based on the amount of data it's consuming."

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Learn more about GitGuardian Platform

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.

GitGuardian Platform was previously known as GitGuardian Internal Monitoring.