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GitGuardian Platform vs Mimecast Incydr comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
GitGuardian Platform boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and enhances security by automating secrets detection and issue management for organizations.
Sentiment score
7.5
Mimecast Incydr improved cost efficiency, ensured data recovery, enhanced security, reduced downtime, and provided significant financial and administrative savings.
I can certainly say that we have saved significant time and resources in terms of people and automation.
DevOps Engineer at Deuna App
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.
Senior Manager, Product Security at DigitalOcean
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.7
GitGuardian's platform offers exceptional customer support with quick, knowledgeable service, high satisfaction, and a seamless onboarding experience.
Sentiment score
8.8
Mimecast Incydr's customer service excels in prompt, knowledgeable support, offering efficient issue resolution and valuable online resources.
It effectively helps us with credentials security and has been performing satisfactorily.
Senior DevOps Engineer
I would rate their technical support a nine out of ten.
Senior Manager, Product Security at DigitalOcean
I would rate the technical support as excellent.
DevOps Engineer at Deuna App
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
GitGuardian efficiently manages large deployments, ensuring speed and reliability, though some desire features for automatic assignment as usage increases.
Sentiment score
7.9
Mimecast Incydr seamlessly scales from small to large deployments, supporting expansion with efficient licensing and storage management.
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.
Head of Engineering Services at IRESS
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
Senior Manager, Product Security at DigitalOcean
Currently, what GitGuardian Platform is doing works effectively.
Director, Corporate Security Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
GitGuardian Platform is highly praised for its stability, fast functionality, and rare maintenance needs, ensuring reliable performance.
Sentiment score
7.8
Mimecast Incydr is reliable and stable, with minor issues swiftly resolved, offering robust performance and minimal service disruptions.
We set up a lot of the repository, so GitGuardian is a required check.
Head of Engineering Services at IRESS
The SaaS platform has experienced two significant moments of downtime or instability in the last six months, requiring notices and retrospectives.
Senior Manager, Product Security at DigitalOcean
I would rate the stability of the GitGuardian Platform as excellent with no downtimes.
DevOps Engineer at Deuna App
 

Room For Improvement

Users seek enhanced GitGuardian features like customization, integration, improved detection, intuitive UI, and broader token support options.
Mimecast Incydr needs better usability, integration, reporting, legal hold, Safari support, and admin features to enhance user experience.
Another thing that would be good to see is some more metrics on the usage of the GitGuardian pre-push hooks.
Head of Engineering Services at IRESS
The self-healing activity by developers isn't reflected in the analytics, requiring us to collect this data ourselves.
Senior Manager, Product Security at DigitalOcean
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.
Director, Corporate Security Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

GitGuardian is costly but valued for its effectiveness and offers a free tier for small teams, with scalable licensing.
Mimecast Incydr offers competitive, transparent pricing with negotiable discounts, praised flexibility, and valued support, though complex licensing challenges smaller businesses.
Overall, the secret detection sector is expensive, but we are happy with the value we get.
Senior Manager, Product Security at DigitalOcean
It's fairly priced, as it performs a lot of analysis and is a valuable tool.
Head of Engineering Services at IRESS
 

Valuable Features

GitGuardian Platform enhances security with rapid secret detection, automated alerts, pre-push hooks, and customizable integrations for developers.
Mimecast Incydr provides seamless, secure data protection with versatile features and robust customer support, enhancing user trust and efficiency.
One of the best features of the solution is the ability to use pre-push hooks.
Head of Engineering Services at IRESS
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.
Senior Manager, Product Security at DigitalOcean
GitGuardian Platform performs the capability to detect secrets in real time exceptionally, as it activates from the commit and can detect it immediately.
Director, Corporate Security Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

GitGuardian Platform
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (8th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (4th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (5th), Software Supply Chain Security (5th), DevSecOps (4th), Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) (2nd)
Mimecast Incydr
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
20th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of GitGuardian Platform is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Mimecast Incydr is 2.4%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
GitGuardian Platform1.1%
Mimecast Incydr2.4%
Other96.5%
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
 

Featured Reviews

Ney Roman - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Deuna App
Facilitates efficient secret management and improves development processes
Regarding the exceptions in GitGuardian Platform, we know that within the platform we have a way to accept a path or a directory from a repository, but it is not that visible at the very beginning. You have to figure out where to search for it, and once you have it, it is really good, but it is not that visible at the beginning. This should be made more exposed. The documentation could be better because it was not that comprehensively documented. When we started working with GitGuardian Platform, it was difficult to find some specific use cases, and we were not aware of that. It might have improved now, but at that time, it was not something we would recommend.
Chuck_Mackey - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Cybersecurity Consulting at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Provides comprehensive visibility and protection, helps in identifying the gaps in security, and comes with excellent onboarding support
In a couple of instances, we had a little bit of trouble in getting it distributed throughout the organization. We ultimately managed to do it, but they talk about it being a pretty simple process, and it became a little laborious. It would just turn away. The agents were not being distributed. It was just churning and churning and churning. When we were looking for specific categories of data, it was getting bogged down, but that was not even so much Code42, although some of it was their issue. It really has to do with the overall infrastructure and what the organization is prepared to do. If the infrastructure or the networking is a little hinky or you don't have a really finely tuned network infrastructure environment and your patches aren't up to date on your servers and your endpoints, it could get a little sticky. Other than that, it was okay. We really didn't have much problem beyond that. It took a couple of days to sort that out, but it was no big deal.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Performing Arts
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise30
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
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 smal...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
It's competitively priced compared to others. Overall, the secret detection sector is expensive, but we are happy with the value we get.
What needs improvement with GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
GitGuardian Platform does what it is designed to do, but it still generates many false positives. We utilize the automated playbooks from GitGuardian Platform, and we are enhancing them. We will pr...
What is your primary use case for Code42 Incydr?
Data Leakage Protection on large scale environments. This can be to protect against leakage on endpoints and servers that consist of highly classified or propriety information. It can be added on a...
 

Also Known As

GitGuardian Internal Monitoring, GitGuardian Public Monitoring
Code42 Next-Gen DLP, Code42 Next-Gen Data Loss Protection, Code42 Forensic File Search, Code42 Backup + Restore
 

Interactive Demo

Demo not available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Widely adopted by developer communities, GitGuardian is used by over 600 thousand developers and leading companies, including Snowflake, Orange, Iress, Mirantis, Maven Wave, ING, BASF, and Bouygues Telecom.
Adobe, Okta, Samsung, Taylormade, Boston University, Lending Club, North Highland, Stanford University, Ping Identity, Qualcomm, Pandora.
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