GitGuardian Platform vs Spirent CyberFlood comparison

GitGuardian and Spirent are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. GitGuardian is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0, while Spirent is ranked #45. GitGuardian holds a 0.7% mindshare in AS, compared to Spirent’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GitGuardian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Spirent users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Spirent CyberFlood and GitGuardian Platform are competitors in the cybersecurity solutions domain. GitGuardian Platform is judged to have the upper hand in features, whereas Spirent CyberFlood scores well for pricing and customer support.

Features: Spirent CyberFlood offers comprehensive testing with detailed simulation capabilities, threat analysis, and performance validation tools. GitGuardian Platform provides automated secret detection, robust repository monitoring, and code base security features. Many users find GitGuardian's features more aligned with modern security requirements.

Room for Improvement: Spirent CyberFlood users express a need for improved integration with other tools, enhanced response times, and better user interface design. GitGuardian Platform users suggest including more customization options, scalability improvements, and richer reporting features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Spirent CyberFlood users report a seamless deployment experience with responsive customer service. GitGuardian Platform is noted for a straightforward deployment process and a proactive support team. Although both products perform well in customer service, GitGuardian has a slight advantage in responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Spirent CyberFlood's setup costs are seen as reasonable, offering good ROI, especially in performance testing scenarios. GitGuardian Platform's pricing is higher but considered justified due to its advanced feature set and efficient user interface, delivering solid ROI for security-focused organizations.

To learn more, read our detailed GitGuardian Platform vs. Spirent CyberFlood Report (Updated: July 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

GitGuardian Platform

Ranking in Application Security Tools

8th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (6th), Software Supply Chain Security (4th), DevSecOps (3rd)

Spirent CyberFlood

Ranking in Application Security Tools

45th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

31st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of GitGuardian Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spirent CyberFlood is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ney Roman

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.

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Jos Badimo

Director at BAMS

Test assurance improves compliance and products with good performance

The user interface could be improved to facilitate easier navigation. The most significant issue I encounter with the solution is the user interface. It would be beneficial if I could remain on one screen most of the time. Even if the system navigates me to another screen, it should effectively return me to the main screen.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of GitGuardian is that it finds tokens and passwords. That's why we need this tool. It minimizes the possibility of security violations that we cannot find on our own."

"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."

"It's fantastic. We have checked a couple of other vendors and seen their results, which are quite inferior to the amount of detail that the GitGuardian Platform provides. With instantaneous notifications connected to our Slack platform, it allows us to deal quickly with incidents."

"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."

"The newest addition that we appreciate about GitGuardian Platform is the ability to create a custom detector, which we built and worked with the team, and that works very effectively."

"GitGuardian Platform has helped save significant time for the security team by eliminating the need to seek out development teams and work with them on exposed secrets, as much of this is now handled proactively."

"GitGuardian Internal Monitoring has helped increase our secrets detection rate by several orders of magnitude. This is a hard metric to get. For example, if we knew what our secrets were and where they were, we wouldn't need GitGuardian or these types of solutions. There could be a million more secrets that GitGuardian doesn't detect, but it is basically impossible to find them by searching for them."

"You can also assign tasks to specific teams or people to complete, such as assigning something to the "blue team" or saying that this person needs to do this, and that person needs to do that. That is a great feature because you can actually manage your team internally in GitGuardian."

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"The testing compliance feature is particularly impressive."

"The feature I find most valuable is the traffic generator."

"CyberFlood is flexible."

"Our customers use it to check for unauthorized file transfer."

"CyberFlood's best features are its user-friendliness and scheduling function."

"The testing compliance feature is particularly impressive."

Cons

"We have encountered occasional difficulties with the Single Sign-On process."

"The analytics in GitGuardian Platform have a significant opportunity to better reflect the value provided to security teams and demonstrate actual activity occurring."

"GitGuardian Platform does what it is designed to do, but it still generates many false positives."

"The main thing for me is the customization for some of the healthcare-specific identifiers that we want to validate. There should be some ability, which is coming in the near future, to have custom identifiers. Being in healthcare, we have pretty specific patterns that we need to match for PHI or PII. Having that would add a little bit extra to it."

"One of our current challenges is that the GitGuardian platform identifies encrypted secrets and statements as sensitive information even though they're secured."

"For some repositories, there are a lot of incidents. For example, one repository says 255 occurrences, so I assume these are 255 alerts and nobody is doing anything about them. These could be false positives. However, I cannot assess it correctly, because I haven't been closing these false positives myself. From the dashboard, I can see that for some of the repositories, there have been a lot of closing of these occurrences, so I would assume there are a lot of false positives. A ballpark estimate would be 60% being false positives. One of the arguments from the developers against this tool is the number of false positives."

"GitGuardian could have more detailed information on what software engineers can do. It only provides some highly generic feedback when a secret is detected. They should have outside documentation. We send this to our software engineers, who are still doing the commits. It's the wrong way to work, but they are accustomed to doing it this way. When they go into that ticket, they see a few instructions that might be confusing. If I see a leaked secret committed two years ago, it's not enough to undo that commit. I need to go in there, change all my code to utilize GitHub secrets, and go on AWS to validate my key."

"There is room for improvement in GitGuardian on Azure DevOps. The implementation is a bit hard there. This is one of the things we requested help with. I would not say their support is not good, but they need them to improve in helping customers on that side."

More GitGuardian Platform cons

"CyberFlood's accessibility and support for multiple browsers could be better."

"The solution needs more ports, more speed, and more gigabytes."

"The initial setup is not straightforward and can be quite challenging."

"Sometimes, when you configure parameters the hardware can't run, it will get stuck at those points without telling you what happened. It would be helpful if the error reporting provided more details about why the test setting is not running. It would be nice if there were a space in the hardware module for you to add some external hardware for more rigorous testing."

"I would also like to see updates on a more frequent schedule."

"The user interface could be improved to facilitate easier navigation."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"GitGuardian is on the pricier side."

"The internal side is cheap per user. It is annual pricing based on the number of users."

"It's a little bit expensive."

"You get what you pay for. It's one of the more expensive solutions, but it is very good, and the low false positive rate is a really appealing factor."

"We have seen a return on investment. The amount of time that we would have spent manually doing this definitely outpaces the cost of GitGuardian. It is saving us about $35,000 a year, so I would say the ROI is about $20,000 a year."

"The pricing and licensing are fair. It isn't very expensive and it's good value."

"It could be cheaper. When GitHub secrets monitoring solution goes to general access and general availability, GitGuardian might be in a little bit of trouble from the competition, and maybe then they might lower their prices. The GitGuardian solution is great. I'm just concerned that they're not GitHub."

"It's not cheap, but it's not crazy expensive either."

More GitGuardian Platform pricing and cost advice

"CyberFlood is reasonably priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Government

16%

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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...

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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.

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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...

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What needs improvement with Spirent CyberFlood?

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What is your primary use case for Spirent CyberFlood?

I have been using the solution for a year now. The customers I work with are focused on both custom test assurance and test automation. The solution is utilized in the financial services sector and...

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What advice do you have for others considering Spirent CyberFlood?

The language barrier and time difference pose significant issues with customer support. The price is competitive. The biggest benefits I find are test assurance, the reliability of the test results...

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Also Known As

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Overview

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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Spirent’s revolutionary CyberFlood security and application testing solution is now available as a virtual platform offering you simplified use, by consolidating multiple test functions into a completely virtual test environment.

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