GitGuardian Public Monitoring

GitGuardian Public Monitoring allows real-time GitHub scanning and alerting to uncover sensitive company information hiding in online repositories. It monitors both organization repositories and developers' personal repositories. The solution gives visibility to developers and security teams on this very critical blindspot that are the organization developers' personal repositories on GitHub (80% of leaked corporate secrets on public GitHub come from developers’ personal repositories).

GitGuardian Public Monitoring can be used by companies with large development teams (above 200 developers) and modern development practices.

GitGuardian Public Monitoring cover 250+ API providers, database connection strings, private keys, certificates, usernames and passwords and intellectual property. It uses pattern matching techniques to detect credentials that cannot be strictly defined with a distinctive pattern (like unprefixed credentials). The algorithm boasts precision, 91% “true positive” feedback following alerts, as reported by users, according to the vendor.

The alerting is done in real-time (a few seconds after the secret was publicly exposed) to enable fast remediation involving in a collaborative way developers, security teams and operations.