GitGuardian Public Monitoring and Fortra's Digital Guardian compete in the cybersecurity domain. GitGuardian is preferred for its pricing and support, while Digital Guardian is favored for its comprehensive security features appealing to feature-focused buyers.
Features: GitGuardian Public Monitoring specializes in scanning public repositories for exposed secrets, offering proactive alerting to prevent data leaks. It is strong in automation and integration capabilities. Digital Guardian provides data loss prevention, protecting sensitive information across endpoints, networks, and the cloud. It excels in extensive data classification and user activity monitoring.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: GitGuardian allows simple cloud-based setup for quick deployment with strong support. Digital Guardian offers a hybrid deployment model for enterprises looking for custom solutions, which can be complex but is supported by strong service options. GitGuardian provides user-focused guidance, whereas Digital Guardian requires deeper configuration, needing dedicated support resources.
Pricing and ROI: GitGuardian Public Monitoring features competitive pricing with low initial setup costs, aiming for a swift ROI. Digital Guardian has a higher initial investment but provides long-term data protection and scalability, offering significant ROI for companies needing extensive coverage. GitGuardian appeals to smaller entities with its cost-effectiveness, while Digital Guardian’s ROI resonates with larger organizations seeking comprehensive security.
Fortra's Digital Guardian is celebrated for its robust data protection, especially in data loss prevention across various endpoints. It enhances organizational efficiency, streamlines workflows, and provides deep insights via advanced analytics and real-time alerts, significantly improving data security and compliance management. Ideal for monitoring, customizing policies, and guarding against internal and external threats.
GitGuardian Public Monitoring allows real-time GitHub scanning and alerting to uncover sensitive company information hiding in online repositories. It monitors both organization repositories and developers' personal repositories. The solution gives visibility to developers and security teams on this very critical blindspot that are the organization developers' personal repositories on GitHub (80% of leaked corporate secrets on public GitHub come from developers’ personal repositories).
GitGuardian Public Monitoring is particularly interesting for companies with large development teams (above 200 developers) and modern development practices.
GitGuardian Public Monitoring cover 350+ API providers, database connection strings, private keys, certificates, usernames and passwords and intellectual property. It uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to detect credentials that cannot be strictly defined with a distinctive pattern (like unprefixed credentials). The algorithm has a high precision (91% “true positive” feedback following our alerts, as reported by our users.)
The alerting is done in real-time (a few seconds after the secret was publicly exposed) which allows fast remediation involving in a collaborative way developers, security teams and operations.
GitGuardian Public Monitoring also allows red teams and pentesters to proactively look for sensitive information by performing complex queries on 12 billion documents and metadata from more than 3 years of GitHub history.
GitGuardian Public Monitoring scans public GitHub activity in real-time, helping organizations detect sensitive information leaks in source code repositories. Our solution gives Threat Intelligence and Security teams full visibility over their organization’s public GitHub Attack Surface, by monitoring both organization-owned repositories and developers' personal repositories.
With 80% of secrets and credentials leaks on public GitHub finding their source in developers' personal repositories, GitGuardian for Public Monitoring helps organizations address a critical security blind spot.
With real-time incident notification, Threat Intelligence and Security teams are guaranteed to reach the incident scene before everyone else and take action to mitigate the threat of breaches and intrusions.
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