Digital Guardian and GitGuardian Platform compete in the data security domain. GitGuardian has the upper hand with its extensive features worth the investment, while Digital Guardian attracts budget-conscious organizations with pricing and support.
Features: Digital Guardian offers comprehensive data loss prevention, endpoint detection, and rule sets for data classification allowing PII data inspection. GitGuardian specializes in automatic secrets detection, internal monitoring for ID and token alerts, and a broad detection scope covering AWS keys and RSA keys to secure coding environments.
Room for Improvement: Digital Guardian might benefit from enhanced integration options, streamlined user interface, and improved scalability for rapidly growing organizations. GitGuardian could improve by reducing its rate of false positives, expanding personalized customer support, and offering more granular customization for complex environments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Digital Guardian supports both on-premise and cloud-based deployments with dependable customer service offering a versatile solution. GitGuardian provides cloud-first solutions focusing on ease of use and seamless integration, although with less personalized customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Digital Guardian offers a cost-effective solution with high ROI potential for companies needing vast data security. GitGuardian, while requiring higher initial investment, promises substantial ROI due to advanced features and broader capabilities for organizations focused on code security.
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.
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.
We also run a self-hosted cluster which has not experienced these issues, though we've faced some challenges upgrading Kubernetes that required support assistance to prevent internal downtime.
We set up a lot of the repository, so GitGuardian is a required check.
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.
It would be helpful to see which GitHub users have or do not have the pre-push hook capability turned on.
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.
GitGuardian Platform performs the capability to detect secrets in real time exceptionally, as it activates from the commit and can detect it immediately.
This results in issues being resolved within minutes, saving significant effort from the security team in tracking down or communicating with developers.
One of the best features of the solution is the ability to use pre-push hooks.
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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.
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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