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GitGuardian Platform vs SafeGuard Cyber Security comparison

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Categories and Ranking

GitGuardian Platform
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (6th), Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) (5th)
SafeGuard Cyber Security
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (82nd), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (74th)
 

Mindshare comparison

GitGuardian Platform and SafeGuard Cyber Security aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. GitGuardian Platform is designed for Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) and holds a mindshare of 3.3%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
SafeGuard Cyber Security, on the other hand, focuses on Email Security, holds 0.3% mindshare, up 0.1% since last year.
Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
GitGuardian Platform3.3%
Saviynt Identity Cloud11.7%
Veza9.0%
Other76.0%
Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM)
Email Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SafeGuard Cyber Security0.3%
Proofpoint Email Protection5.9%
Microsoft Defender for Office 3655.2%
Other88.6%
Email Security
 

Featured Reviews

Ney Roman - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Deuna
Facilitates efficient secret management and improves development processes
Regarding the exceptions in GitGuardian Platform, we know that within the platform we have a way to accept a path or a directory from a repository, but it is not that visible at the very beginning. You have to figure out where to search for it, and once you have it, it is really good, but it is not that visible at the beginning. This should be made more exposed. The documentation could be better because it was not that comprehensively documented. When we started working with GitGuardian Platform, it was difficult to find some specific use cases, and we were not aware of that. It might have improved now, but at that time, it was not something we would recommend.
Sonu Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Logic Planet Inc
Helps to monitor everything – from the firewall to endpoint protection, all within a single software
The tool lets us monitor everything – from the firewall to endpoint protection, all within a single software We use different vendors for various aspects like cybersecurity policy and DLP implementation. SafeGuard Cyber Security is expensive. It needs to improve the data server as well.  I have…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Before this solution, we didn't have anything for secret detection; we went from zero to having something, and thanks to the tool, we have decreased the risk, automated what we did manually, and definitely increased our security team productivity."
"GitGuardian has increased our detection rate by a factor of 10 at least."
"GitGuardian Internal Monitoring has helped increase our secrets detection rate by several orders of magnitude. This is a hard metric to get. For example, if we knew what our secrets were and where they were, we wouldn't need GitGuardian or these types of solutions. There could be a million more secrets that GitGuardian doesn't detect, but it is basically impossible to find them by searching for them."
"There is quite a lot to like. Its user interface is fantastic, and being able to sort the incidents by whether they are valid or for a certain repository or a certain user has been very beneficial in helping investigate what has been found."
"GitGuardian has many features that fit our use cases. We have our internal policies on secret exposure, and our code is hosted on GitLab, so we need to prevent secrets from reaching GitLab because our customers worry that GitLab is exposed. One of the great features is the pre-receive hook. It prevents commits from being pushed to the repository by activating the hook on the remotes, which stops the developers from pushing to the remote. The secrets don't reach GitLab, and it isn't exposed."
"Before we had GitGuardian we were blind; we had a lot of false positives with other products, but now GitGuardian has fewer false positives, its secrets detection is more accurate, and it has decreased our false positives by a minimum of 20 percent."
"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 are getting more mindful about what a secret is."
"What I appreciate the most about GitGuardian Platform is its efficiency when triggering our pipeline and notifying us if secrets have been exposed, such as APIs, variables, our database, or anything being exposed."
"The tool lets us monitor everything – from the firewall to endpoint protection, all within a single software."
 

Cons

"One area of improvement for GitGuardian Platform would be reducing false positives and making some alerts easier to prioritize."
"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."
"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."
"It could be cheaper. When GitHub secrets monitoring solution goes to general access and general availability, GitGuardian might be in a little bit of trouble from the competition, and maybe then they might lower their prices."
"I rate GitGuardian Platform a nine out of ten because there is a slight learning curve in integration, and I would have preferred integration with AI-native development workflows."
"We have been somewhat confused by the dashboard at times."
"I'm excited about the possibility of Public Postman scanning being integrated with GitGuardian in the future. Additionally, I'm interested in exploring the potential use of honeytokens, which seems like a compelling approach to lure and identify attackers."
"The areas that have room for improvement involve the missing feature to add custom detectors for the GitGuardian Platform, which would help us check if internal secrets are still valid or not."
"We use different vendors for various aspects like cybersecurity policy and DLP implementation. SafeGuard Cyber Security is expensive. It needs to improve the data server as well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"With GitGuardian, we didn't need any middlemen."
"The internal side is cheap per user. It is annual pricing based on the number of users."
"We have seen a return on investment. The amount of time that we would have spent manually doing this definitely outpaces the cost of GitGuardian. It is saving us about $35,000 a year, so I would say the ROI is about $20,000 a year."
"It's a bit expensive, but it works well. You get what you pay for."
"It's not cheap, but it's not crazy expensive either."
"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."
"I compared the solution to a couple of other solutions, and I think it is very competitively priced."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
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Company Size

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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise28
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
It's competitively priced compared to others. Overall, the secret detection sector is expensive, but we are happy with the value we get.
What needs improvement with GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
GitGuardian Platform does what it is designed to do, but it still generates many false positives. We utilize the automated playbooks from GitGuardian Platform, and we are enhancing them. We will pr...
What is your primary use case for GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
Our current use cases for GitGuardian Platform involve monitoring external and internal GitHub and GitLab, Bitbucket, and other code repositories that it supports for secrets.
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Also Known As

GitGuardian Internal Monitoring, GitGuardian Public Monitoring
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Backed by a $50M Series C raised in February 2026 (Insight Partners, Quadrille Capital) and trusted by 600K+ developers, GitGuardian is the #1 most-installed security app on the GitHub Marketplace. Enterprises including Snowflake, ING, BASF, Datadog, Bouygues Telecom, Euronext, and Orange Business rely on the platform.
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