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GitGuardian

Find every credential. Stop the next breach.

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GitGuardian is a credential security platform that finds secrets across code, CI/CD, containers, developer endpoints, cloud IAM, vaults, AI coding tools, and collaboration platforms, then helps teams remediate exposures and prevent new leaks. It covers internal secrets monitoring, public GitHub monitoring including personal repositories, developer endpoint protection, non-human identity (NHI) governance, and honeytokens, and is available as SaaS or self-hosted.

Core capabilities include 550+ secret detectors with live validity checks, historical git history scanning, AI-powered risk scoring and false-positive removal, auto-assigned incidents with per-detector rotation playbooks, and integrations with Slack, Teams, Jira, ServiceNow, webhooks, and SIEM/SOAR/ITSM tools. Developer-side prevention comes through the ggshield CLI with pre-commit hooks, a VS Code extension, and AI IDE hooks for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot, alongside GitGuardian Scout. NHI Governance inventories service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, and AI agents across vaults and cloud IAM, mapping ownership and rotation status.

GitGuardian is built for developers, AppSec and SecOps analysts, security engineers, and IAM teams. It is offered on a free plan that includes developer-side guardrails, a free trial, and a free GitHub security audit, with additional capabilities available on paid editions.

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