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"It enables us to remediate issues as they happen in near real-time"

It enables us to identify leaks that happened in the past and remediate current leaks as they happen in near real-time. When I say "near real-time," I mean within minutes. These are industry-leading remediation timelines for credential leaks. Previously, it might have taken companies years to get credentials detected or remediated. We can do it in minutes.

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George Jenkins

Application Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Software vendor currently using GitGuardian Public Monitoring

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George Jenkins

Application Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

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What is most valuable?

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What is our primary use case?

GitGuardian Internal Monitoring is a tool we use to deal with internal credential leaks. We found that our development teams included sensitive credentials in merge requests with concerning frequency in the early days of our startup. 

How has it helped my organization?

GitGuardian has improved our visibility, which is crucial for a startup with a small security team. The ability to automate detection and response for credential leaks is massive. We're an early-stage startup that is moving extremely quickly. When you're moving fast, you might ignore your code's structure and security. 

What is most valuable?

I previously worked with open source secret detection solutions and found the efficacy of those tools to be highly suspect. We tried some off-the-shelf tools and found that they had massive amounts of false positives. I like that GitGuardian is highly accurate. It finds legitimate credential leaks 99 percent of the time. A low footprint of false positives means we can use the tool effectively. 

What needs improvement?

I'm interested in their new product features. Honeytokens are something we deployed when it was an open source project. Now that is integrated into the platform. It's in beta right now, and they're branching out into additional vulnerabilities. 

For how long have I used the solution?

We've used GitGuardian for more than a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I haven't had any problems with GitGuardian. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We're throwing a lot at GitGuardian. A monorepo with around 50 developers and three and a half years of development in it is no small feat for it to handle. It handles the task wonderfully.

How are customer service and support?

I rate GitGuardian's support a nine out of ten. I've called them a few times, and they resolved all my issues in one working day. They do everything they can. Support engineers are responsive, knowledgeable, present, polite, and helpful. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were trying various open source solutions when we bought GitGuardian. There was maybe one other well-regarded commercial option, but it was technically incompatible. 

How was the initial setup?

GitGuardian doesn't require much preparation other than setting up a GitLab credential. I would like to have some integration that enabled us to provision users automatically ahead of time. We use SAML, so developers are able to SSO into the tool but can't link the developer to an incident if they don't already have access to the platform.

What about the implementation team?

What was our ROI?

The main return on investment is reduced time spent investigating historical credential leaks. That was a large upfront return that we saw immediately after allowing GitGuardian to scan our repositories. We hook it up, let it do its thing, and stay out of the way until something bad happens. I don't have to spend time messing with CI/CD pipeline or onboarding new repos and developers. Everything happens natively within the platform.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is reasonable. GitGuardian is one of the most recent security tools we've adopted. When it came time to renew it, there was no doubt about it. It is licensed per developer, so it scales nicely with the number of repositories that we have. We can create new repositories and break up work. It isn't scaling based on the amount of data it's consuming. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We deployed a few open source solutions into our CI/CD pipelines, but we were underwhelmed with the results. Ultimately, we selected GitGuardian for its accuracy and collaborative features. We also like the built-in validity checks and all the other options we didn't have when we were deploying tools directly into our CI/CD. It's a night-and-day difference between the pain of dealing with an open source solution and the joy of dealing with a full-fledged operational platform like GitGuardian.

What other advice do I have?

I rate GitGuardian Internal Monitoring a ten out of ten. GitGuardian is my favorite security tool. It is a joy to use and so effective. I highly recommend trying GitGuardian. It's easy to set up and provides extremely accurate results. If I could only pick one tool for application security, this would be it.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?