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Check Point CloudGuard Code Security vs GitGuardian Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point CloudGuard Code...
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
10th
Ranking in DevSecOps
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
GitGuardian Platform
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
6th
Ranking in DevSecOps
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (6th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (5th), Software Supply Chain Security (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of Check Point CloudGuard Code Security is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitGuardian Platform is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
 

Featured Reviews

Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 1, 2023
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.
Joan Ging - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 19, 2024
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Its fastest and most outstanding characteristic is ensuring a development line that will not lead to applying applications or code development."
"Automation has helped a lot to identify and automatically execute policies, rules, and blocks due to its machine learning."
"It helped us to reduce vulnerabilities."
"You can maintain a legal framework structure at all times."
"The data center security system has provided real-time analytics on performance and data configuration processes."
"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."
"We have a strong sense of security assurance when utilizing CloudGuard, as it consistently delivers outstanding protection capabilities."
"Having a cloud detection response helps to very quickly identify security threats in our environment."
"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."
"I like that GitGuardian automatically notifies the developer who committed the change. The security team doesn't need to act as the intermediary and tell the developer there is an alert. The alert goes directly to the developer."
"The breadth of the solution detection capabilities is pretty good. They have good categories and a lot of different types of secrets... it gives us a great range when it comes to types of secrets, and that's good for us."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of GitGuardian is that it finds tokens and passwords. That's why we need this tool. It minimizes the possibility of security violations that we cannot find on our own."
"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."
"The entire GitGuardian solution is valuable. The product is doing its job and showing us many things. We get many false positives, but the ability to automatically display potential leaks when developers commit is valuable. The dashboards show you recent and historical commits, and we have a full scan that shows historical leaked secrets."
"Presently, we find the pre-commit hooks more useful."
 

Cons

"They could include web functionalities such as sandboxing."
"There needs to be better security around API integration."
"The costs are not transparent."
"The enhancements are needed in the logging system and log management processes."
"I am satisfied with the performance and results enhanced by this product since we deployed it."
"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."
"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."
"An area for improvement is the front end for incidents. The user experience in this area could be much better."
"Other solutions have a live chat feature that provides instant results. Waiting for an agent to reply to an email is less ideal than an instant conversation with a support employee. That's a complaint so minor I almost hesitate to mention it."
"There are some features that are lacking in GitGuardian. The more we grow and the more engineers we have, the more it will become difficult to assign an incident because the assignment is not automatic. I know they are working on that and we are waiting for it."
"Automated Jira tickets would be fantastic. At the moment, I believe we have to go in and click to create a Jira ticket. It would be nice to automate."
"I would like to see more fine-grained access controls when tickets are assigned for incidents. I would like the ability to provide more controls to the team leads or the product managers so that they can drive what we, the AppSec team, are doing."
"We'd like to request a new GitGuardian feature that automates user onboarding and access control for code repositories."
"Right now, we are waiting for improvement in the RBAC support for GitGuardian."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is extremely affordable and high value for cost."
"With GitGuardian, we didn't need any middlemen."
"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 not cheap, but it's not crazy expensive either."
"GitGuardian is on the pricier side."
"I compared the solution to a couple of other solutions, and I think it is very competitively priced."
"The pricing and licensing are fair. It isn't very expensive and it's good value."
"The pricing for GitGuardian is fair."
"It's a little bit expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
22%
Government
11%
Media Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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 detect and begin response actions in minutes. We had the API key revoked in less than...
What needs improvement with Spectral?
The solution should improve vulnerability in-depth, false-positive reduction, integration with other tools, performance optimization, and the user interface.
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 first twelve months. It provides full functionality for smaller teams. We're a smal...
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 repositories. Ideally, when a user contributes to a repository, they would be automatically...
 

Also Known As

Spectral
GitGuardian Internal Monitoring
 

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Sample Customers

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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