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Secrets Detection

Secure. Every. Code. Commit.

Scan and fix hardcoded secrets in source code, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity tools – with GitGuardian’s code security platform.

Secrets are the keys
to your kingdom

  • Every day, GitGuardian finds more than 27,000 hardcoded secrets in GitHub repositories.
  • Leaving secrets in source code, Jira tickets, and Slack threads gives attackers the freedom to move from one system to the next. Even worse, you may never know they were there or how they got in.
  • Automate secrets detection and reduce your exposure risk.

Unite Dev. Sec. and Ops. to fight hardcoded secrets

Align developers, security teams, and DevOps engineers in a single platform.

Developers

Keep your code free from secrets

Scan every push and commit, find and fix hardcoded secrets while you code

SECURITY TEAMS

Enforce security policies for everyone, everywhere

Ensure every team is compliant and empowered to fix their own mistakes

CLOUD OPERATIONS

Get continuous pipeline security

Align engineering and security with automated secrets scanning in CI/CD

Security from the first line
of code to the last build

Code security that fits
into every workflow

Prevent secrets from leaving your workstations

Code fast and stay secure with the ggshield CLI

  • Set up pre-commit hooks to scan staged changes for 350+ different types of secrets
  • Remove hardcoded secrets and prevent them from reaching remote branches
  • Skip the checks in case of false positives
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Stop secrets leaks in your DevOps pipelines

Harden your pipelines with the ggshield CLI

  • Run automated scanning jobs with native support for your CI/CD tools
  • Set up branch protection rules and block merge requests when ggshield finds hardcoded secrets
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Gain complete visibility and continuous protection

  • Scan your code repositories, Jira projects (coming soon), and Confluence (coming soon)
  • Understand the scope and severity of security incidents and policy breaks
  • Examine secrets exposure trends over time and monitor team performance
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Everything you need to prioritize
and remediate hardcoded secrets

Deploy honeytokens to secure time for remediation

  • Deploy honeytokens across every repo with a secret leak occurrence for instant breach detection while you focus on resolving incidents at scale.
  • Prioritize accordingly if any valid secrets were found in codebases where a honeytoken was triggered, and invalidate those credentials as soon as possible.
  • Receive immediate alerts when private code goes public, enabling rapid measures to protect exposed secrets and prevent unauthorized access.
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Get your alerts delivered in real-time, at the right place

  • Connect GitGuardian to your favorite SIEMs and ITSMs and never miss an exposed secret again
  • Communicate with development and DevOps teams through dedicated incident channels in your ChatOps tools
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Prioritize your incidents ruthlessly

  • Use context-based automation to score severity (e.g secret type, occurrences, location, validity)
  • Triage, assign, and track the resolution of your secrets incidents in GitGuardian or Jira
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Switch developer-driven remediation mode on

  • Automate alerting and incident sharing with the developers involved
  • Collect feedback on the fly with ready-made questionnaires
  • Empower developers to fix and resolve their incidents without your intervention
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#1 Security app on

the GitHub marketplace

Trusted by security leaders at the world’s biggest companies

Here’s how we are helping them

GitGuardian has absolutely supported our shift-left strategy. We want all of our security tools to be at the source code level and preferably running immediately upon commit. GitGuardian supports that. We get a lot of information on every secret that gets committed, so we know the full history of a secret.

GitGuardian efficiently supports a shift-left strategy. As a result, it has made things materially more secure. The ability to check for hardcoded secrets as part of pre-receive hooks is fantastic, as it helps identify issues before they reach the main codebase, and that was the ultimate goal for us.

The platform has helped to facilitate a better security culture within our organization. In addition to highlighting problems, it shows engineers how to properly remove hardcoded secrets, and provides advice on rotation.

We have definitely seen a return on investment when it finds things that are real. We have caught a couple of things before they made it to production, and had they made it to production, that would have been dangerous. For example, AWS secrets, if that ever got leaked, would have allowed people full access to our environment. Just catching two or three of those a year is our return on investment.

Overall, 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 in the organization are getting more mindful about what a hardcoded secret is.

Time to remediation is now in minutes or hours, whereas it used to take days or weeks previously. That's the biggest improvement. Because it is automated and visible to the author, someone from the security team doesn't have to remind them or recheck it. That means the slowdown in the deployment process has definitely been improved by an order of magnitude. There is easily a 30-hour improvement on time to remediation, which is about an 85 percent decrease.

The solution has reduced our mean time to remediation. We are down to less than a day. In the past, without context, knowing who made the commit, or kind of secret it was, sometimes it was taking us a lot longer to determine the impact and what actions needed to be taken.

I can say that tracking down a hardcoded secret, getting it migrated out of source code, getting the secret rotated, and cleaning the Git history took much longer from commit until the full resolution before GitGuardian. We weren't notified until it was too late, but with GitGuardian, we know almost instantly.

Product features

Find out how GitGuardian reduces the risk of hardcoded secrets in your software supply chain

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Source code and infrastructure-as-code

Continuously scan all public and private Git repositories listed under your GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, or Bitbucket organizations. Infrastructure-as-code file configurations are also scanned for hardcoded secrets and sensitive environment variables.

Docker images

Scan your Docker images for hardcoded credentials before pushing them to public or private registries.

Developer productivity tools (coming soon)

Developers write more than code. Scan your Jira projects and Confluence wikis for hardcoded credentials.

Developer workstations

Set up pre-commit or pre-push hooks to scan source code on developer workstations with GitGuardian’s CLI, ggshield.

CI environments

Plug GitGuardian into your CI/CD and run secrets scanning automated tests in your pipeline.

Centralized Version Control Systems

Scan your Git repositories’ full history and continuously monitor all new contributions. GitGuardian integrates natively with GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab and Bitbucket.

Pull requests

Turn GitHub check runs on and scan every commit in your pull requests for hardcoded secrets.

High coverage with specific detectors

GitGuardian’s Mean-Time-To-Detect is a few seconds after the secret is publicly exposed.

Generic detectors

Capture JWT secrets, Bearer tokens, username/password pairs, and all types of high-entropy patterns not covered by specific detectors with GitGuardian’s “Paranoïd mode”.

Custom detectors

Define custom Regex rules for secrets specific to your organization.

High precision detection

Reduce alert fatigue with a 91% True Positive Rate (TPR) and multiple occurrences grouping.

GitGuardian performs contextual analysis of the surrounding code to discard false positives and weak matches.

When possible, GitGuardian also checks the validity of the hardcoded secrets with non-intrusive HTTP calls to the host.

Developer alerting

Developers are at the forefront of the issue of secret leaks. GitGuardian alerts the developers involved in the incidents alongside your Security team.

Integrations

Connect GitGuardian natively to your SIEM, ITSM, ticketing systems, messaging apps, or configure your webhooks.

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Incident severity assignment

Assign a severity to each incident.

Incident prioritization

Explore and triage your incidents with key context information (secret type, location, incident severity, number of occurrences, live presence in the git repository, secret validity).

Developer feedback collection

Generate unique links to collect developer feedback on incidents. Harness the involved developers’ knowledge to understand the nature of the incident and the security risks it poses.

Developer-driven remediation

Empower developers to fix hardcoded secrets and resolve their incidents under your supervision.

Automated workflows

Enable automated playbooks for incident details sharing and developer-led remediation.

Programmatic incident management

Manage incidents programmatically with GitGuardian’s REST API.

Self-hosted option

GitGuardian can be deployed on bare metal, private or public clouds and can be deployed on existing Kubernetes cluster. It can be installed via a user-friendly interface or automated using Helm for a streamlined setup.

SSO

Single Sign-On functionality, compatible with any SAML 2.0 provider.

Audit logs

Get detailed activity logs of all actions triggered on the dashboard or through the REST API.

RBAC

Control user permissions in the GitGuardian dashboard with "Admin", "Member" and “Restricted” roles.

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Let us show you why developers and security leaders trust GitGuardian.

You can also assign tasks to specific teams or people to complete. That is a great feature because you can actually manage your team internally in GitGuardian.
The solution has increased our secrets detection rate by almost 100 percent.
We're only spending about a minute on each incident now, and the time saved scales up depending on the number of incidents.
The biggest lesson we have used from using GitGuardian is that we should have started using it earlier.
GitGuardian is a better choice than an open source solution if you are serious about preventing leaks on GitHub.
The good thing about GitGuardian is that we don't get many false positives.
We know that if someone is leaking something critical or a secret, it will be detected pretty fast by GitGuardian and we will be alerted in minutes.
GitGuardian has increased our detection rate by a factor of 10 at least. And our mean time to remediation has been decreased.
Our ROI is in the fact that we have detected a lot of secrets that were publicly leaked.
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Let us show you why developers and security leaders trust GitGuardian.

GitGuardian is the Hero You Never Knew You Needed.
GitGuardian has high True Positive Rate and reduces alert fatigue with smart occurrences regrouping.
GitGuardian reminds the whole team of any committed credentials before it is a threat to the company through leaks.
GitGuardian reminds the whole team of any committed credentials before it is a threat to the company through leaks.
It never fails to notify me when I have accidentally exposed a secret , which unfortunately happens more than I'd like to admit.
GitGuardian Internal Monitoring has had a positive impact on our overall business objectives.
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Let us show you why developers and security leaders trust GitGuardian.

Love that the product makes it so easy to identify when secrets have been checked into the code!
Gitguardian prevented a major leak in my codebase
The remediation workflow helps to quickly resolve findings and makes it easy to include developers in the process.
Gitguardian prevented a major leak in my codebase
The remediation workflow helps to quickly resolve findings and makes it easy to include developers in the process.
Coupled with the low price point, this is a HUGE win for our team + code base.
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