GitGuardian Platform vs Spirent CyberFlood comparison

GitGuardian and Spirent are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. GitGuardian is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.6, while Spirent is ranked #32. GitGuardian holds a 0.9% mindshare in AS, compared to Spirent’s 0.3% 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 Jul 28, 2025

Spirent CyberFlood and GitGuardian Platform both compete in the cybersecurity sector, each with a unique focus on network and code security respectively. GitGuardian Platform edges out in features, despite Spirent CyberFlood's competitive pricing and support satisfaction.

Features: Spirent CyberFlood is equipped with capabilities for advanced network testing, cyber threat simulations, and a detailed performance assessment. On the other hand, GitGuardian Platform offers precise code scanning, real-time incident alerts, and compliance-driven insights, demonstrating notable strength in code security.

Room for Improvement: Spirent CyberFlood could enhance its user interface and reduce the expertise needed for deployment. Additionally, integration with newer network technologies would broaden its application. GitGuardian Platform could improve in reducing its false positive rate and expand its alert customization options. Optimizing its secret detection algorithm for better accuracy and minimizing manual intervention could further enhance overall effectiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Spirent CyberFlood features a comprehensive network integration capability; however, it demands considerable setup expertise. GitGuardian Platform presents a streamlined setup process and excels in customer support, simplifying integration into DevOps workflows and enhancing user satisfaction with swift assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Spirent CyberFlood offers competitive pricing with a potentially lower initial setup cost, ensuring ROI through extensive testing tools. Despite higher costs, GitGuardian Platform promises significant ROI justified by its specialized features that proactively prevent high-impact vulnerabilities, providing strategic value that outweighs initial investments for organizations prioritizing security efficacy.

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Categories and Ranking

GitGuardian Platform

Ranking in Application Security Tools

9th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (7th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (7th), Software Supply Chain Security (6th), DevSecOps (3rd), Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) (4th)

Spirent CyberFlood

Ranking in Application Security Tools

32nd

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

29th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of GitGuardian Platform is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spirent CyberFlood is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
GitGuardian Platform	0.9%
Spirent CyberFlood	0.3%
Other	98.8%

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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 is the general incident reporting system."

"The breadth of the solution detection capabilities is pretty good. They have good categories and a lot of different types of secrets... it gives us a great range when it comes to types of secrets, and that's good for us."

"The entire GitGuardian solution is valuable. The product is doing its job and showing us many things. We get many false positives, but the ability to automatically display potential leaks when developers commit is valuable. The dashboards show you recent and historical commits, and we have a full scan that shows historical leaked secrets."

"Presently, we find the pre-commit hooks more useful."

"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."

"GitGuardian has also helped us develop a security-minded culture. We're serious about shift left and getting better about code security. I think a lot of people are getting more mindful about what a secret is."

"GitGuardian has helped to increase our security team's productivity. Now, we don't need to call the developers all the time and ask what they are working on. I feel the solution bridged the gap between our team and the developers, which is really great. I feel that we need that in our company, since some of the departments are just doing whatever and you don't know what they are doing. I think GitGuardian does a good job of bridging the gap. It saves us about 10 hours per week."

"GitGuardian public leak detection significantly enhances our organization's data security by continuously monitoring public repositories."

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"CyberFlood is flexible."

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

"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

"There is room for improvement in its integration for bug-tracking. It should be more direct. They have invested a lot in user management, but they need to invest in integrations. That is a real lack."

"It took us a while to get new patterns introduced into the pattern reporting process."

"It could be easier. They have a CLI tool that engineers can run on their laptops, but getting engineers to install the tool is a manual process. I would like to see them have it integrated into one of those developer tools, e.g., VS Code or JetBrains, so developers don't have to think about it."

"GitGuardian's hook and dashboard scanners are the two entities. They should work together as one. We've seen several discrepancies where the hook is not being flagged on the dashboard. I still think they need to do some fine-tuning around that. We don't want to waste time."

"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."

"It would be nice if they supported detecting PII or had some kind of data loss prevention feature."

"There are some features that are lacking in GitGuardian. The more we grow and the more engineers we have, the more it will become difficult to assign an incident because the assignment is not automatic. I know they are working on that and we are waiting for it."

"The analytics in GitGuardian Platform have a significant opportunity to better reflect the value provided to security teams and demonstrate actual activity occurring. While the self-healing capability and proactive developer actions are important features, the analytics do not provide information around this activity."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It's competitively priced compared to others. Overall, the secret detection sector is expensive, but we are very happy with the value we get."

"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."

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

"The pricing for GitGuardian is fair."

"With GitGuardian, we didn't need any middlemen."

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

"I compared the solution to a couple of other solutions, and I think it is very competitively priced."

More GitGuardian Platform pricing and cost advice

"CyberFlood is reasonably priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

19%

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	13

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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

GitGuardian Internal Monitoring, GitGuardian Public Monitoring

CyberFlood Virtual, Spirent Mu Dynamics Application Security Testing, Mu Dynamics Application Security Testing

Overview

GitGuardian is an advanced secrets security platform that strengthens Non-Human Identity security and ensures compliance with industry standards by detecting and managing secrets in development environments.

GitGuardian integrates Secrets Security and Secrets Observability, facilitating the detection of compromised secrets and managing legitimate secrets' lifecycle. Supporting over 450 types of secrets, the platform offers public monitoring for leaked data and employs honeytokens as an added defense. Trusted by over 600,000 developers, organizations such as Snowflake and ING rely on GitGuardian for robust secrets protection.

What features define GitGuardian?

Internal Monitoring: Tracks confidential data like IDs and tokens.
Dev in the Loop: Rapid alerts for leaks.
Detection Capabilities: High accuracy with a low false-positive rate.
Integrations: Supports seamless integration with multiple platforms.
Customized Detectors: Offers tailored security solutions.
Multi-Vault Support: Facilitates efficient issue management.

What are the key benefits when evaluating GitGuardian?

Comprehensive Detection: Identifies AWS keys and other hardcoded secrets.
Efficient Remediation: Swiftly resolves issues.
Improved Security: Prevents accidental leaks of sensitive data.
Seamless Integration: Compatible with platforms like GitHub and Azure DevOps.

In sectors like healthcare and telecommunications, GitGuardian is implemented for detecting and managing the exposure of sensitive information in code repositories. Teams benefit from its ability to integrate with platforms such as GitHub, allowing for immediate alerts and efficient remediation of security risks, enhancing application security by safeguarding operational environments.

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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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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.

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