🔒🤖 The Next Step in GitGuardian’s Approach to NHI Security

Deliver secure software innovation for Financial Services

Transform financial services with robust code security that ensures compliance, rapid delivery, and protects sensitive customer and financial data from breaches due to code vulnerabilities.

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Who we work with

Retail and commercial banks

Investment banks and brokerages

Capital markets and exchanges

Home, property & casualty, auto, and life & annuities insurers

Business and professional insurers

Payment processors and FinTechs

Cryptocurrency companies

Trusted by Financial Services software development and security teams

Testimonials

"Overall the tool works as expected. It analyzes your repos, and identifies secrets with a low amount of false positives"

IT Security & Risk Management Associate in Banking industry

“GitGuardian has helped us be much more accurate because we used to use a tool we had built internally, but it did not work well. GitGuardian has increased our detection rate by a factor of 10 at least.”

Theo Cusnir,

Application Security Engineer at Payfit

"GitGuardian showed me that there are still people in the market that care, I found GitGuardian to be an amazing tool doing its job for a reasonable price."

Cyber Security Engineer in Banking Industry

Security challenges faced by financial services companies around the world

Complexity in modern cloud-native architectures

Managing open-source and third-party code amplifies risk. With 80% of code often sourced from third parties, and open-source, do you truly know what’s running in your environment?

Code generated by AI coding assistants

GitHub Copilot poses security and privacy challenges, including potential leakage of sensitive code, insecure code suggestions, exposure to malicious code through AI poisoning, and package hallucination.

Hardcoded credentials risks in internal perimeter

Hardcoded secrets in source code are a major breach risk. Revolut's attack highlights the danger due to improper handling of sensitive data. Secrets attacks are one of the top two attack vectors (IBM Security).

Frequent and costly breaches

Breaches in the financial sector cost an average of $6 million each according to Statista. The IMF estimates industry-wide losses could reach hundreds of billions annually, impacting profitability and stability.

Insufficient monitoring of external attack surface

Publicly exposed apps often leak sensitive credentials. 13 million secrets were identified on GitHub alone in 2023. Dedicated code security solutions are necessary to identify and remediate hardcoded credentials at scale.

How does GitGuardian help financial services companies around the world?

Ensure regulatory compliance

DORA: Automate secrets risk assessment & secrets management policy enforcement, real-time alerts, audit trails for incident reporting, vulnerability scanning, prioritization, security posture insights, third-party risk visibility, and attack surface monitoring.

NIS2: NIS2 secures the supply chain by managing supplier risks. GitGuardian prevents secret exposure and uses fake secrets to detect breaches in providers. Our SBOMs help develop a comprehensive understanding of your software composition and dependencies to ensure quick remediation.

PCI-DSS: Meet PCI DSS 4.0 requirement 8.6.2 by preventing hard-coded passwords with our 420+ detectors, comprehensive scanning, automated blocking, and workflow management.  

SOC-2: SOC 2's CRY-2 control mandates that "the company restricts privileged access to encryption keys to authorized users with a business need," and secrets detection ensures that encryption keys do not leak into source code.

Streamline code security

On-premises, air-gapped deployment: Implement in a fully isolated, on-premises environment to satisfy rigorous security standards, a feature not available in other solutions. 

Enhance efficiency and reduce costs: Unify secrets detection, public GitHub monitoring, and SDLC intrusion detection into one platform. This streamlines security ops, reduces vendor complexity, cuts licensing costs, and simplifies security management.

Gain complete visibility across SDLC and beyond: Monitor source code, CI/CD pipelines, and dev tools like %external sources scanned for secrets% for secrets. Extend monitoring to the attack surface beyond internal control, like public GitHub, to catch leaked secrets.

Monitor in real-time and scan full history: Implement scanning of repos, no matter how large they are, ensuring that no code change, whether recent or from years ago, introduces secrets. This meets financial audit requirements for historical compliance.

Accelerate development and security

Detect and remediate early: Embed security checks early to catch vulnerabilities before production, enhancing compliance and reducing costly late-stage remediation, crucial in high-stakes financial environments where downtime leads to significant losses and impacts the bottom line.

Empower developers: Integrate into the existing pipeline and provide developers with pre-commit hooks, IDE integrations, and real-time feedback to identify and fix vulnerabilities before code is committed. This proactive shift-left approach minimizes security overhead while ensuring secure coding practices critical for the financial sector.  

Code securely with Copilot: Scan AI-generated code for secrets, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities before they reach production. GitGuardian ensures secure code practices while leveraging your AI-assisted coding tools.

Enhance accuracy and ease prioritization

Automate security: Use scalable automation to streamline manual tasks like alerting, ticketing, access granting, severity scoring, incident investigation, and resolving invalid incidents. This helps you support rapid dev cycles without compromising on security.

Reduce false positives and alert fatigue: Utilize our in-house ML model to cut false positives by 50% and prioritize critical alerts, reducing alert fatigue. This focus on actionable alerts ensures that devs can respond quickly to real threats and focus on innovating.

Prioritize risk effectively in minutes: Evaluate risks based on severity, exploitability, business impact, and automated severity scoring in a centralized dashboard to triage and focus remediation on critical vulnerabilities safeguarding financial ops and reducing the likelihood of costly breaches.

Enhance remediation, and operational efficiency

Leverage contextual insights: Use rich context to speed up response times and reduce breach risk, crucial in the financial sector, where the speed and accuracy of remediation are critical to maintaining ops integrity and customer trust.

Make code security a team-wide effort: Support shared responsibility with fine-grained access, decentralized workflows, and tailored guidelines. With every AppSec managing thousands of alerts, this ensures consistent security and faster, safer app delivery.  

Rotate & vault: Enforce secrets rotation and integrate with secrets managers like CyberArk to automatically rotate at-risk secrets, minimize exposure and reduce the attack surface.  

Reduce TCO: Automate tasks and streamline processes to reduce the TCO of your security ops and enhance your team’s overall efficiency, ensuring your resources are focused on protecting critical assets.