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Automated Secrets Detection and Remediation

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GitGuardian - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

What is GitGuardian?

GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup that helps solve the issue of secrets sprawling through source code. This issue is solved by automating secrets detection and remediation for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes. GitGuardian helps developers and security and compliance professionals secure software development and define and enforce policies across all their systems. The software automatically monitors public and private repositories in real-time, detect secrets, and send alerts to allow investigation and quick remediation.

GitGuardian Internal Monitoring is an automated secrets detection & remediation solution. It integrates with the Version Control System to further secure the software development life cycle. It scans existing code as well as incremental changes to detect secrets (API keys, database credentials, certificates). GitGuardian detection algorithm was battle-tested at scale on the whole public GitHub activity for over two years.

Scanning is done continuously but also on git history to ensure total coverage. The secret detection engine covers 200+ API providers, database connection strings, private keys, certificates, usernames and passwords and allows also to build custom detectors.

GitGuardian uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to detect credentials that cannot be strictly defined with a distinctive pattern (like unprefixed credentials). The precision of the detection engine is very high as it returns 91% “true positive” feedback following our alerts, as reported by our users. The developer and the application security team get the alert and can start the remediation process immediately. GitGuardian has native integration with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket and there is both a SaaS and an on-premise version available. It is also integrated with the most common SIEM, ITSM, ticketing systems and chat to integrate with companies’ alerting flows.

GitGuardian Public Monitoring allows real-time GitHub scanning and notifications 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. It covers 200+ 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.

Benefits of using GitGuardian

GitGuardian Internal Monitoring Benefits:

- Detection in-depth with 350+ detectors;
- Speed and precision (4 seconds MTTD with a 91% TPR);
- Real-time monitoring at scale (thousands of repositories per organization
- Historical scanning and source code repositories health check reports;
- Cross-org collaboration features (Developers, Security, and Operations);
- Incident lifecycle management automation;
- Native integrations with VCS, CI/CD tooling, SIEMs, and ITSMs;
- REST API for programmatic and at scale incident lifecycle management;
- Analytics for tracking team performance and incident remediation KPIs;
- SaaS or on-premise deployments;
- SSO/SAML authentication, Roles based access management, and audit logs.

GitGuardian Public Monitoring Benefits:
- Detection in-depth with 350+ detectors;
- Speed and precision (4 seconds MTTD with a 91% TPR);
- Real-time monitoring of a dynamic perimeter of GitHub accounts and repositories;
- Historical scanning and source code repositories health check reports;
- Analytics for tracking team performance and incident remediation KPIs;
- Built-in search engine to explore 12 billion GitHub documents (3 years archive);
- REST API for programmatic and at scale incident lifecycle management;
- SSO/SAML authentication, Roles based access management, and audit logs.

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GitGuardian's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from GitGuardian users:

Real-Time Monitoring
Risk Alerts
Real-Time Notifications
Vulnerability Scanning
Alerts/Notifications
Monitoring

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Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Code Review
Incident Management
Repository Management
Threat Intelligence
Threat Response
Third-Party Integrations
Real-Time Reporting
Compliance Management
Reporting/Analytics
Whitelisting/Blacklisting
Single Sign On
Activity Monitoring
Cloud Application Security
Endpoint Protection

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GitGuardian integrations (12)

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We looked through 42 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as GitGuardian integrations, and what is the users perception.

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GitHub

Integration rating: 5.0 (7)

Enabled us to automatically scan the source code repositories on Pull requests

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GitGuardian support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk

Training options

Documentation

GitGuardian reviews

Overall rating

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.02/10
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Pros
First of all a really great UI. Very simple and beautiful dashboard.
Easy to set up-The remediation workflow helps to quickly resolve findings and makes it easy to include developers in the process.
It has been great I trust it and the securities of my repos.
Cons
No support for integrating with ADO, which is frustrating because we've had to purchase another tool for this.
I have pushed almost for 7-8 times. Now days i do that mistake rarely but in earlier days I was struggle with this issue.
Gitguardian prevented a major leak in my codebase.

GitGuardian FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does GitGuardian offer?

GitGuardian has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of GitGuardian?

GitGuardian has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business


Q. What languages does GitGuardian support?

GitGuardian supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does GitGuardian offer an API?

Yes, GitGuardian has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does GitGuardian integrate with?

GitGuardian integrates with the following applications:
GitHub, Jira, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, Slack, PagerDuty, Azure DevOps Server, Splunk Enterprise, Bitbucket, ServiceNow


Q. What level of support does GitGuardian offer?

GitGuardian offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk

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