Secrets Detection

Find, fix, and prevent hardcoded secrets

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

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Secrets are the keys
to your kingdom

Every day, GitGuardian finds more than %ssdk% 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

Scan locally, right in your dev environment (CLI or IDE).

Set up pre-commit hooks to scan staged changes for %ndet%+ different types of secrets
Remove hardcoded secrets and prevent them from reaching remote branches
Skip the checks in case of false positives

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

Gain complete visibility and continuous protection

Scan your code repositories, %external sources scanned for secrets%
Understand the scope and severity of security incidents
Examine secrets exposure trends over time and monitor team performance

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.

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

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

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

Manage Your Secrets Managers

Gain centralized control over all your vaulted secrets.
Identify risks within your vaults and correlate vaulted secrets with external or internal exposures.
Collect rich secret metadata securely and get an interactive Secrets Map for streamlined remediation.

Boost developer efficiency and collaboration

Pinpoint exact files needing code fixes, reducing search time.
Enhance collaboration between incident managers and developers.
Get a clear focus on critical remediation actions for faster results.

Minimize remediation time

Cut remediation time, reducing secrets exposure risks.
Improve accountability with pull request tracking for security teams.
Time-sensitive fixes lead to immediate security improvements.

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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.

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Product features

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

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Sources SDLC coverage Detection Alerting Remediation Enterprise-ready

Source code

Continuously scan all public and private Git repositories listed under your GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, or Bitbucket organizations.

Docker images

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

Developer productivity tools

Developers write more than code. Scan %external sources scanned for secrets% 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”. Our Machine Learning models analyze context, enabling you to classify and prioritize critical generic secrets.

Custom detectors

Define custom Regex rules for secrets specific to your organization.

High precision detection

Reduce alert fatigue with a %sdtpr%% 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.

Saved views for relevant incidents

Save filter criteria to quickly display and share relevant incidents (e.g., “critical” incidents with “valid” secrets). Create views that align with your organization’s priorities.

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.

SaaS implementation is available in the 🇪🇺 or 🇺🇸 zones

GitGuardian is GDPR-compliant with data storage in Frankfurt, Germany. Alternatively, data can be hosted on the East Coast of the USA.

Select the best region to fulfill your compliance and latency requirements.

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. Automate user onboarding and offboarding via SCIM.

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.

Secrets Management Maturity Model

Measure your secrets management and secrets detection maturity with GitGuardian’s self-assessment

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Secure every stage of your SDLC

And hide your secrets from the privy eyes of attackers.