"Proactive self-service capabilities remove the burden of the security team and enable faster remediation"

GitGuardian Platform is a security tool preventing the exposure of secrets. It is particularly valuable as a tool because it doesn't just identify exposed security issues, but works as a platform that gives developers an intuitive and easy way of reacting to and fixing the issues.

GitGuardian Platform captures all the major secret types we care about. It tends to be a bit overzealous in some categories, but it covers all the ones that we want to track and keep an eye on. It has great coverage over those.

The validity and self-healing playbook features of GitGuardian Platform is one of the most useful features for us. It automatically reaches out to developers for any leaks, notifying them immediately via email. We have Slack notifications set up, allowing developers to respond, provide feedback about sensitive values, and self-close issues by attesting completion on the platform. 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. This results in issues being resolved within minutes, saving significant effort from the security team in tracking down or communicating with developers.

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. They only track actions inside the platform when security team members assign themselves to issues and respond. The self-healing activity by developers isn't reflected in the analytics, requiring us to collect this data ourselves. This presents an opportunity for them to better showcase their developer-first remediation mindset.

We have been using GitGuardian Platform for approximately nine months.

It's a stable platform, we don't often have to think about it. The SaaS platform has experienced two significant moments of downtime or instability in the last six months, requiring notices and retrospectives. We also run a self-hosted cluster which has not experienced these issues, though we've faced some challenges upgrading Kubernetes that required support assistance to prevent internal downtime.

I would rate their technical support a nine out of ten.

We were using a home-grown solution. 

The initial setup of the self-hosted cluster was moderately complex. We faced some issues because of the environment we had. We had to fix some installation errors and bugs in their Helm configuration.

We implemented in-house.

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. It saves a lot of time for the security teams and the developers. It probably saves approximately 10 hours per week. Previously, we needed an extra 20% of our time focused on this subject area, which has now been saved because of this platform.

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

We evaluated other vendors on the market. The secret detection capabilities of most vendors are basically equivalent, capturing all major types of secrets. The management and administration of findings after scanning is what differentiates vendors. Many alternatives lack strong administration capabilities for security teams after finding detections. GitGuardian's dashboard, self-healing playbooks, and ways for the security team to monitor, track, and deduplicate detections make it easier to manage the program compared to competitors.

I would recommend GitGuardian Platform to other users due to the ease of management for the security team with the dashboard. It offers easy administration of results. The proactive self-service capabilities provided to developers remove the burden from the security team and enable faster remediation of exposed values.