GitGuardian

Platform

GitGuardian is the code security platform for the DevOps generation. In this section, learn how to set up & use GitGuardian Platform for comprehensive protection of your SDLC.

First steps

Get started

Create your account

Read instructions on how to create a GitGuardian account, sign up, verify your email address, manage account settings etc.

Integrate your first repositories

Integrate GitGuardian with internal repos, & configure to monitor the codebase. It covers a wide range of VCSs (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket & Azure Repos).

Assess your repositories’ health

See how GitGuardian performs full historical scan of your repositories to conduct an initial audit. The Perimeter view gives info on interpreting scan results.

Connect with GitGuardian

Git repositories (VCSs)

Learn how to set up GitGuardian's monitoring for different VCS integrations, including GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos.

Dev environments

Discover GitGuardian CLI (ggshield) for secrets & IaC misconfigs scanning throughout your SDLC. Install, use and customize ggshield to fit your specific needs.

Alerting tools

See instructions on how to set up and configure various notification integrations, including email alerting, webhooks, Splunk, PagerDuty, Slack, Discord, and Jira.

Monitor your perimeter

Understand the monitored perimeter

Understand how to monitor your perimeter, grasp the scope of the perimeter and see differences between historical scanning and real-time protection.

Configure real-time alerts and notifications

Learn how to configure and manage alerts, set up alert policies and customize notification settings. It also includes info on how to view and manage alerts.

Modules

Secrets Detection

Detect secrets and sensitive information in code repositories and alert team members of potential security risks.

Honeytoken

Generate decoy secrets at scale, monitor for unauthorized use, and boost DevOps pipeline security against supply chain attacks.

Configuration

Manage your workspace

Create and manage users

Manage GitGuardian users and roles for effective collaboration. Add and remove users, assign roles and permissions, and manage access control policies.

Create and manage teams

Manage teams for seamless collaboration and sharing of secrets incidents. Create teams, add or remove teammates, and assign permissions.

Set incident permissions

Learn about incident permissions and sharing. Assign incident permissions, share incidents internally via "grant access", and externally via "public share link".

Enterprise administration

Configure SAML SSO

Manage email domain

Audit log

Transfer workspace ownership

Manage your account

Account settings

Plan and usage

Configure email preferences

GitGuardian API, CLI & SDK

Dashboard

GitGuardian API

GitGuardian CLI (ggshield)

Python SDK

Security & Data privacy

Data retention

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