Check Point CloudGuard Code Security vs GitGuardian Platform comparison

Check Point Software Technologies and GitGuardian are both solutions in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category. Check Point Software Technologies is ranked #13 with an average rating of 9.0, while GitGuardian is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0. Additionally, 100% of Check Point Software Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of GitGuardian users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

GitGuardian Platform and Check Point CloudGuard Code Security both compete in the security domain, each specializing in different aspects of it. GitGuardian appears to have an edge in internal secrets management, offering fast remediation and effective real-time alerts, while Check Point excels in infrastructure risk assessments with strong automation features.

Features: GitGuardian Platform is recognized for its extensive detection capabilities, efficiently identifying and managing secrets. It provides real-time alerts and maintains low false-positive rates, aiding seamless integration with various tools. Check Point CloudGuard Code Security stands out for its automation in security processes and comprehensive code assessments, being part of Check Point's broader security ecosystem. It excels in real-time threat detection, which is crucial for environments with complex infrastructure.

Room for Improvement: GitGuardian users seek better customization options and enhanced integrations, along with simplified historical scanning processes. There is also a call for clearer remediation instructions and the desire for a mobile app. In Check Point CloudGuard Code Security, users face challenges with limited documentation and support, desiring easier third-party tool integrations and improved geolocation handling. Both solutions would benefit from more tailored user experiences and expanded integrations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: GitGuardian Platform is praised for its ease of use and excellent customer support, with a responsive technical support team ensuring a positive implementation experience. Check Point CloudGuard Code Security users report less need for direct technical support. However, the complexity and newness of the tool pose challenges, offset by its simple setup once understood.

Pricing and ROI: GitGuardian's pricing is generally viewed as reasonable, providing clear ROI for smaller teams, though larger organizations may find it costly despite its security insights. Check Point CloudGuard Code Security is considered affordable, offering significant ROI through enhanced security postures. The purchasing process is sometimes seen as less straightforward. Both products deliver good ROI in protecting sensitive information, with pricing fairness perceptions varying by organization size and needs.

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Cloudflare

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Spencer Malmad

Owner at Tech Exchange

It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes

Cloudflare is highly scalable. Cloudflare is a system with a web portal that the end users like me see. It's a console where we can adjust the DNS, caching, and security features all in that console. Cloudflare owns thousands of servers across the world that cache the data. It's a powerful solution. When clients sign up for Cloudflare, they're getting this monster content delivery network, security, and a web application firewall in one. It's all rolled into one, and it's massive. Unless you have your website hosted on a massive hosting provider, there's no way that you can deliver the amount of data that Cloudflare can provide to the end users. If you have static content, there's no way that you can ever match what Cloudflare can do. Obviously, there are competitors to Cloudflare that do the same, but I'm saying other types of solutions. Let's say you go with F5. Great, that's on-prem. That's in your colo. You can't deliver as much data to the internet as you can with a CDN. You don't have to spend $20,000 on a net scaler, F5, or whatever Cisco's selling now. You don't have to buy that. You pay them $50 a month or $150 a month. It's totally worth it because even in five years, you'll never get the performance value, not just the actual ROI. You have to consider how much throughput you can get with Cloudflare.

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Nagendra Nekkala.

Senior Manager ICT & at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Good security and functionality with helpful support

The security on offer is great. It's secure in terms of testing all the workloads. We can test across any workload or multiple clouds. It offers unified prevention. It also offers posture management by verifying proper scanning. We use the GSL builder. It's easy to write customer rules or policies using it. Of course, you do need proper training on the product first. It takes around one week to get trained. We've been able to reduce human error, and you can build the rules for better coverage. It provides functionality across cloud providers. The solution helps us save time. We've reduced the amount of time spent by 25%. Its unified security management console is a very complete dashboard. We can see all security threats and can gain visibility into what is happening. We have access to automation and can monitor the security of IT systems. The product offers role-based access control so that we can set up different privileges for admin users. Cloud Guard Spectrum is good for automating our organization's security across assets, workloads, and multiple clouds. With it, we have advanced pre-prevention across the cloud security network. It works for on-premises also. We can easily determine our organization's security posture. It will ensure my application's availability time across the enterprise. Network security helped us reduce our compliance and audit activities. We've saved about 20% of our time. Having a cloud detection response helps to very quickly identify security threats in our environment. It's automated so it saves us time. That way, people can work on other projects. On any given day, we're spending 20% less time in general worrying about detection and response. Our security operations are saving a lot of time using a unified platform.

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Joan Ging

Head of Development at Inhabit

It dramatically improved our ability to detect secrets, saved us time, and reduced our mean time to remediation

While they do offer some basic reporting, more comprehensive reporting would be beneficial in the long run. This would allow me to demonstrate the value of the product over time to continue to effectively budget for this subscription, especially as they add features that may come at an additional cost. I appreciate the improvements made to reporting over the past year, but continued development in this area will be appreciated. We have encountered occasional difficulties with the Single Sign-On process. There is room for improvement in its current implementation. It works, but was not quite as smooth as the rest of the GitGuardian experience.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The attacker won't have details since my public IP is anonymous. It offers us good privacy."

"Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. You don't necessarily need a certificate if you have a connection between your website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host."

"The most valuable feature is its usability."

"I like Cloudflare's application gateway and DDoS protection."

"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."

"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."

"It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten...I rate the scalability a ten out of ten."

"Its ease of integration with Office 365 and the fact that it's a good product compared to what I had before"

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"Its fastest and most outstanding characteristic is ensuring a development line that will not lead to applying applications or code development."

"It helped us to reduce vulnerabilities."

"Knowing what measures we must take allows us to reduce costs associated with security in the cloud by providing early identification of a risk or a possible security breach."

"Compared to what we used before, it's helping us to be more efficient in managing our traffic."

"Automation has helped a lot to identify and automatically execute policies, rules, and blocks due to its machine learning."

"The implementation of this tool for security management and control is very simple."

"We have had a number of real events where developers accidentally made commits of API keys, and we were able to detect and begin response actions in minutes. We had the API key revoked in less than five minutes in such events."

"Having a cloud detection response helps to very quickly identify security threats in our environment."

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"You can also assign tasks to specific teams or people to complete, such as assigning something to the "blue team" or saying that this person needs to do this, and that person needs to do that. That is a great feature because you can actually manage your team internally in GitGuardian."

"Some of our teams have hundreds of repositories, so filtering by team saves a lot of time and effort."

"It's also worth mentioning that GitGuardian is unique because they have a free tier that we've been using for the first twelve months. It provides full functionality for smaller teams. We're a smaller company and have never changed in size, but we got to the point where we felt the service brought us value, and we want to pay for it. We also wanted an SLA for technical support and whatnot, so we switched to a paid plan. Without that, they had a super-generous, free tier, and I was immensely impressed with it."

"The secrets detection and alerting is the most important feature. We get alerted almost immediately after someone commits a secret. It has been very accurate, allowing us to jump on it right away, then figure out if we have something substantial that has been leaked or whether it is something that we don't have to worry about. This general main feature of the app is great."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the general incident reporting system."

"GitGuardian has pretty broad detection capabilities. It covers all of the types of secrets that we've been interested in... [Yet] The "detector" concept, which identifies particular categories or types of secrets, allows an organization to tweak and tailor the configuration for things that are specific to its environment. This is highly useful if you're particularly worried about a certain type of secret and it can help focus attention, as part of early remediation efforts."

"It actually creates an incident ticket for us. We can now go end-to-end after a secret has been identified, to track down who owns the repository and who is responsible for cleaning it up."

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Cons

"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."

"DNS Management."

"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."

"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."

"For large enterprises, the pricing is okay. However, the enterprise price for small projects is a bit high. A mid-tier pricing option would be beneficial."

"The documentation could improve for Cloudflare DNS."

"One area of improvement is in the Access Rules. Hypothetically, if we wanted to block or challenge traffic outside of the United States, the only way to currently do that (as far as I know) is to enter every single country outside of the United States. That could be a labor intensive job. A solution could be to enable users to create a rule where traffic is only allowed within a certain country."

"The integration of LLMs on the dashboard is something that is needed in the tool."

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"It is generally difficult to find documentation about the product, and there is relatively little to find."

"There are a lot of opportunities for how they can use their technology to do more. That would be more like sensitive data discovery and other things besides Git Repos, but then you are expanding the scope of what necessarily their product is."

"The enhancements are needed in the logging system and log management processes."

"This is a highly technical solution for users who do not have security experience. It requires specialized knowledge of configurations to use it correctly."

"I would like this solution to be extended to cellular devices or tablets."

"They could include web functionalities such as sandboxing."

"The solution should improve false-positives."

"I am satisfied with the performance and results enhanced by this product since we deployed it."

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"One of our current challenges is that the GitGuardian platform identifies encrypted secrets and statements as sensitive information even though they're secured."

"For some repositories, there are a lot of incidents. For example, one repository says 255 occurrences, so I assume these are 255 alerts and nobody is doing anything about them. These could be false positives. However, I cannot assess it correctly, because I haven't been closing these false positives myself. From the dashboard, I can see that for some of the repositories, there have been a lot of closing of these occurrences, so I would assume there are a lot of false positives. A ballpark estimate would be 60% being false positives. One of the arguments from the developers against this tool is the number of false positives."

"GitGuardian could have more detailed information on what software engineers can do. It only provides some highly generic feedback when a secret is detected. They should have outside documentation. We send this to our software engineers, who are still doing the commits. It's the wrong way to work, but they are accustomed to doing it this way. When they go into that ticket, they see a few instructions that might be confusing. If I see a leaked secret committed two years ago, it's not enough to undo that commit. I need to go in there, change all my code to utilize GitHub secrets, and go on AWS to validate my key."

"The main thing for me is the customization for some of the healthcare-specific identifiers that we want to validate. There should be some ability, which is coming in the near future, to have custom identifiers. Being in healthcare, we have pretty specific patterns that we need to match for PHI or PII. Having that would add a little bit extra to it."

"It could be easier. They have a CLI tool that engineers can run on their laptops, but getting engineers to install the tool is a manual process. I would like to see them have it integrated into one of those developer tools, e.g., VS Code or JetBrains, so developers don't have to think about it."

"There is room for improvement in its integration for bug-tracking. It should be more direct. They have invested a lot in user management, but they need to invest in integrations. That is a real lack."

"They could give a developer access to a dashboard for their team's repositories that just shows their repository secrets. I think more could be exposed to developers."

"An area for improvement is the front end for incidents. The user experience in this area could be much better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing depends on the usage, but the cheapest would be around 5,000 USD a month."

"The product's pricing is minimal compared to other products."

"That is one of the great features. I was able to access the majority of the features and services for free."

"When you compare Cloudflare DNS to other solutions, such as Akamai, the price is reasonable."

"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."

"The solution has many features but there are ones that you need to pay for. Sometimes you have to find out which is available for free and which you have to pay for."

"The price is reasonable."

"I give the price a five out of ten."

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"It is extremely affordable and high value for cost."

"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 repos 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."

"It's a little bit expensive."

"GitGuardian is on the pricier side."

"It's not cheap, but it's not crazy expensive either."

"I compared the solution to a couple of other solutions, and I think it is very competitively priced."

"The internal side is cheap per user. It is annual pricing based on the number of users."

"You get what you pay for. It's one of the more expensive solutions, but it is very good, and the low false positive rate is a really appealing factor."

"I am only aware of the base price. I do not know what happened with our purchasing team in discussions with GitGuardian. I was not privy to the overall contract, but in terms of the base MSRP price, I found it reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

21%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

27%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

22%

Government

13%

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

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By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...

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Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...

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What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

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What do you like most about Spectral?

We have had a number of real events where developers accidentally made commits of API keys, and we were able to detec...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spectral?

Pricing and licensing modules need to be improved.

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What needs improvement with Spectral?

The solution should improve vulnerability in-depth, false-positive reduction, integration with other tools, performan...

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What do you like most about GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?

It's also worth mentioning that GitGuardian is unique because they have a free tier that we've been using for the fir...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?

The pricing for GitGuardian is fair.

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What needs improvement with GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?

We'd like to request a new GitGuardian feature that automates user onboarding and access control for code repositorie...

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Overview

Cloudflare is a highly-regarded Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection solution. The robust global connectivity cloud platform that is Cloudflare ensures users are able to connect to the Internet quickly, securely, and reliably. Cloudflare is one of the world's largest networks in the marketplace today. Using Cloudflare, businesses, educational entities, NGOs, vloggers, bloggers, and anyone else with an internet presence can experience more secure, faster websites and applications.

Currently, there are millions of Internet locations on Cloudflare, and the Cloudflare network
continues to grow every day by the thousands. The solution is able to fulfill the requests for
millions of websites seamlessly and serves on average 45 million HTTP requests per second.

Cloudflare has safe, secure data centers in close to 300 cities worldwide to ensure every
client request is filled as quickly as possible. It is Cloudflare’s edge network that makes this
possible by keeping content and other services as close to each client as possible, so the
information requests are always only seconds away.

Many organizations that work in democracy, civil society, human rights, or the arts are able to
access Cloudflare's highest levels of protection for free via Project Galileo. Additionally, official
election websites can be secured from hacking and fraud through Cloudflare’s Project
Athenian, also at no additional cost.

Cloudflare can also help organizations of all sizes develop a robust zero-trust strategy to
ensure the highest levels of productivity and profitability. Employees, stakeholders, and end users have a greater level of satisfaction and overall improved user experience, which can, in
turn, result in higher revenues and overall ROI. Zero-trust and BYOD (bring your own device)
access ensure end users and employees always have the best resources and technology
available to them at all times.

Cloudflare benefits

Cloudflare has many benefits. Some of its most valuable benefits include:

- Faster load times

- Robust DNS security

- Intuitive cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)

- Free universal SSL

- Image enhancement

- Automatic browser caching

- Next-generation cloud load balancer

- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

- Rate limiting

- Minification

- Zero-trust capabilities

- Cost-effective

- Reduced carbon footprint

Reviews from real users

“Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare
comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and
an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. If you have a connection between your
website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host, you don't necessarily need a
certificate.” Spencer M., Owner at Tech Exchange

“What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage
applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare
also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering,
so it's a valuable tool.” Daniel P., Network Engineer at Ufinet

“The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very
well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service.” PeerSpot user, Competence Center Manager at a tech services company

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Check Point CloudGuard Code Security enhances application and site security in Microsoft Azure, detecting vulnerabilities, preventing breaches, and safeguarding against malicious activities while ensuring compliance and improving code quality.

Check Point CloudGuard Code Security, designed for cloud and on-premise environments, scans applications configurations, detects exposed credentials, and aligns with legal frameworks. It offers simple implementation, centralized management, customizable rules, and improved security practices. It supports multiple clouds, offers real-time data loss prevention, advanced posture management, and remediation guidance. It enhances policy enforcement and provides powerful analytics, intuitive dashboards, and automation for reduced human error and better security.

What are the key features of Check Point CloudGuard Code Security?

Simple Implementation: Easy to deploy and start securing environments quickly.
Broad Language Validation: Supports multiple coding languages for fast identification of security issues.
Real-Time Data Loss Prevention: Continuously monitors and mitigates data leakage risks.
Powerful Analytics: Provides in-depth insights and detailed reports for better decision-making.
Centralized Management: Allows control and oversight from a single interface.
Intuitive Dashboards: User-friendly displays for monitoring security status and trends.
Improved Security Practices: Encourages the adoption of better security measures.
Strong Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats rapidly.
Automation: Reduces human error by automating routine security tasks.
Customization: Enables tailored security rules to meet specific needs.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating Check Point CloudGuard Code Security?

Reduced Human Error: Automation and robust features lessen the risk of mistakes.
Enhanced Policy Enforcement: Ensures consistent application of security policies.
Time Savings: Streamlined processes save valuable time for security teams.
Secure Remote Connections: Protects data during remote access.
Fast Risk Identification: Quickly identifies and addresses vulnerabilities.
Advanced Posture Management: Comprehensive oversight of security posture.

Check Point CloudGuard Code Security is vital in industries where securing cloud and on-premise environments is critical. For instance, in finance, it aids in regulatory compliance and protects sensitive data. Healthcare relies on it for safeguarding patient information, while tech companies use it to protect intellectual property during development. In retail, it enhances security against cyber threats, securing transaction data and customer information.

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GitGuardian helps organizations detect and fix vulnerabilities in source code at every step of the software development lifecycle. With GitGuardian’s policy engine, security teams can monitor and enforce rules across their VCS, DevOps tools, and infrastructure-as-code configurations.

Widely adopted by developer communities, GitGuardian is used by more than 500,000 developers and is the #1 app in the security category on the GitHub Marketplace. GitGuardian is also trusted by leading companies, including Instacart, Genesys, Orange, Iress, Beyond Identity, NOW: Pensions, and Stedi.

GitGuardian Platform includes automated secrets detection and remediation. By reducing the risks of secrets exposure across the SDLC, GitGuardian helps software-driven organizations strengthen their security posture and comply with frameworks and standards.

Its detection engine is trained against more than a billion public GitHub commits every year, and it covers 350+ types of secrets such as API keys, database connection strings, private keys, certificates, and more.

GitGuardian brings security and development teams together with automated remediation playbooks and collaboration features to resolve incidents fast and in full. By pulling developers closer to the remediation process, organizations can achieve higher incident closing rates and shorter fix times.

The platform integrates across the DevOps toolchain, including native support for continuously scanning VCS platforms like GitHub, Gitlab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket or CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, GitLab pipelines, and many more. It also integrates with ticketing and messaging systems like Splunk, PagerDuty, Jira and Slack to support teams with their incident remediation workflows. GitGuardian is offered as a SaaS platform but can also be hosted on-premise for organizations operating in highly regulated industries or with strict data privacy requirements.

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Sample Customers

Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.

Doddle, Bangalore International Airport, Grupo financiero ACOBO, DigitalTrack

Automox, 66degrees (ex Cloudbakers), Iress, Now:Pensions, Payfit, Orange, BouyguesTelecom, Seequent, Stedi, Talend, Snowflake...

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