GitGuardian Platform vs Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention comparison

GitGuardian and Microsoft are both solutions in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category. GitGuardian is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.2, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0. GitGuardian holds a 0.6% mindshare in DLP, compared to Microsoft’s 18.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GitGuardian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and GitGuardian Platform both compete in the data protection and compliance category. Both have strong offerings, but each has advantages in particular environments; Microsoft Purview in regulatory compliance and GitGuardian in development-centric environments.

Features: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention offers robust compliance features, auto-labeling capabilities, and seamless Microsoft ecosystem integration for widespread data protection. It is preferable for global compliance requirements. GitGuardian Platform excels in rapid and accurate secret detection across software repositories, fast alerting, and effective remediation, making it ideal for development environments with its low false-positive rate and extensive integration support.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Purview could benefit from simpler label configuration, enhanced third-party integration especially in source code, improved technical support, and richer endpoint features. GitGuardian could enhance integration with other software tools, improve user role management, and develop better automated feedback systems, while also extending its capabilities for specific regulatory needs of smaller or uniquely situated enterprises.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Purview leads with flexible deployment options including public, private, and hybrid clouds, although technical support receives mixed reviews for its response times. Its documentation partially compensates for this. GitGuardian, supporting both public and on-premises environments, is noted for its effective technical support and easy deployment, with its documentation also receiving praise.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, part of the E5 license, is critiqued for high costs but integrates effectively with Microsoft tools, providing good ROI by eliminating the need for third-party solutions. GitGuardian is seen as expensive for larger teams but offers value in security assurance, its competitive pricing strategy includes a free tier, ensuring outstanding ROI by mitigating security risks in software development.

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Categories and Ranking

GitGuardian Platform

Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (6th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (5th), Software Supply Chain Security (4th), DevSecOps (4th)

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Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of GitGuardian Platform is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is 18.9%, down from 21.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Anna Virtsan

IT Project Manager at UkrSibbank

Integrates well, connects with iOS and Android devices, and takes into account critical regulations from around the world

I currently work in the financial domain, and we have very strict regulations from national banks and the group side. Domain-related improvements could be really useful for organizations and banks. For example, sensitive information types are the basic level of information protection, similar to the Purview model. We start with creating or duplicating sensitive insights and editing them. I am talking about more sensitive information types that align with European regulations, especially in the financial sector. Having more variety would be beneficial. All of the EU considers sensitive information types in finance, but we need more variety, especially as a Ukrainian company. We face a lack of attention to our region, despite having the same strict regulations as EU companies. One point of improvement is related to organization and language issues. For instance, we use different sensitive information types for France, the UK, and other countries where we have offices. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't support the Ukrainian language, unlike Chinese and Japanese languages, which have deeper layers of understanding of information. It would be helpful to add support for Ukrainian. However, I understand that we are essentially bilingual, using both English and Ukrainian in our companies, and we are a minority in terms of languages. Other solutions, like ERP systems, offer localization for Ukraine and have partnerships with companies. Microsoft 365 also supports the Ukrainian language from a user perspective. However, unfortunately, Defender and Azure lack deeper settings. They do not provide language options beyond the ones already available, so our language option is missing. Purview includes sensitive info types covering a wide range of languages and country specifications. For instance, it includes passport numbers for Ukraine, but we also need a sensitive input type for our tax numbers. Currently, there is no option for our tax numbers, which forces us to duplicate the data. In contrast, they include all sorts of options such as driver's license numbers and insurance policy numbers for EU companies. It would be beneficial to have those presets available for us as well.

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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 most valuable feature is its ability to automate both downloading the repository and generating a Software Bill of Materials directly from it."

"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."

"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."

"GitGuardian has helped to increase our security team's productivity. Now, we don't need to call the developers all the time and ask what they are working on. I feel the solution bridged the gap between our team and the developers, which is really great. I feel that we need that in our company, since some of the departments are just doing whatever and you don't know what they are doing. I think GitGuardian does a good job of bridging the gap. It saves us about 10 hours per week."

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

"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."

"Presently, we find the pre-commit hooks more useful."

"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."

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"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's responses are faster. Its installation is also reliable. The security score helps with the security part."

"The auto-labeling feature is definitely the most valuable feature. It goes in and labels the documents for you in different repositories. It covers the Outlook and Exchange repositories along with SharePoint and OneDrive. It is really helpful in those areas."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the mature O365 DLP, which works with SharePoint and Teams."

"It's secure and can be integrated with an existing Forcepoint DLP setup."

"There's a good amount of documentation in case you run into any problems."

"If we can prevent information from going out, eventually, when a regulator is asking about our security measures, we can show what we've been doing."

"When you are going to use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, most of the setup is already done by default as per your needs."

"The product is easy to configure."

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Cons

"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."

"The purchasing process is convoluted compared to Snyk, the other tool we use. It's like night and day because you only need to punch in your credit card, and you're set. With GitGuardian, getting a quote took two or three weeks. We paid for it in December but have not settled that payment yet."

"We have been somewhat confused by the dashboard at times."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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"The scalability, in terms of the portal, could be more user-friendly. Sometimes I have faced difficulties in identifying the options."

"They do not provide language options beyond the ones already available, so our language option is missing."

"A site can have different containers where you store data. We have always wanted to apply compliance, labels, and policies at the container level, rather than to an outer shell or at the site level. That is something we have been looking forward to and I believe Microsoft is already planning something like that."

"It could cover more solutions and technologies."

"Some main features are limited in comparison to other solutions."

"The AI advancements can improve the false positives."

"There is a need for improvements, particularly in ensuring that file-based recognition is more reliable and comprehensive."

"A major improvement is required in the solution's incident handling and alerting."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"GitGuardian is on the pricier side."

"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."

"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."

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

"The pricing and licensing are fair. It isn't very expensive and it's good value."

"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."

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"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."

"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is part of a bundle and is not sold as a standalone product."

"You get the solution in a bundle if you get the E5 suite."

"The cost works out to about $15 per user per month."

"Though I am not a specialist, the tool is quite expensive."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"If one is very cheap and ten is very expensive, I rate the price as one out of ten."

"It is a part of our Microsoft licensing. We pay for a yearly renewal. Its price is reasonable for the size of the organization we are. It is fairly competitive, and you get what you pay for. We have an E5 license, and a part of understanding the E5 license is to see what all you get with it. If you really look at it from that standpoint, you get a lot of value. You have Defender and all its security features in there as well. Their licensing is fairly flexible. They have different programs. We've seen ones where you could pay for up to three to five years in advance. There is also a monthly pay-as-you-go type of deal, but we're doing a yearly renewal and fixing the budget."

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Computer Software Company

22%

Government

11%

Media Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

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...

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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 repositories. Ideally, when a user contributes to a repository, they would be automatically...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

The most valuable features are identifying sensitive data and issuing alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

The solution’s pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

We faced a performance issue with the tool when we didn't get alerts for file uploads.

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Overview

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.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.

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