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

Secure your communication infrastructure while accelerating your innovation

GitGuardian offers telecommunications companies a multifaceted approach to ensuring infrastructure and service security, including continuous detection of code vulnerabilities, automated risk prioritization, and a shared responsibility model for effective remediation.

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We protect the largest organizations in the industry

One of the world's largest telecommunications companies has been using GitGuardian Secrets Detection since 2022 to protect its secrets. With 10,000 developers working on over 50,000 code repositories, the company struggled to prevent its secrets from being leaked. They chose GitGuardian for its scaling capabilities, superior pre-commit hooks, high-quality findings, ease of implementation, and customizable workflows.

Within months, this company went from experiencing security breaches to having zero hardcoded secrets. The incident Mean Time To Remediation (MTTR) dropped from an average of 52 days in the first year to only 7 days in the second year of using GitGuardian.

Hear how Bouygues Telecom, serving 15M customers, reduced their secrets by 60%

Olivier Ribardiere

Head of CI/CD & Frameworks

Attacks targeting telecom companies are on the rise

Exposed database credentials give access to call records and text messages from 235 Syniverse customers.

Personal data of 10,200 Optus customers published on the dark web due to leaked API keys.

Data breach involving the ICCID and personal information of 2.5 million customers from a Vodafone subsidiary.

Expanding attack surfaces and reputational risks

Telecom networks constantly evolve, from legacy baseband units to edge computing across geographically dispersed locations, widening their attack surfaces. Cyber-attacks and service downtime can erode trust and drive customers to competitors.

Stringent regulations

The telecom industry is heavily regulated, with strict requirements around data protection, security, and the challenge of adhering to diverse regulations across multiple jurisdictions. Secrets are attackers' favorite attack vectors for breaching organizations' data.

Vulnerable interconnected systems

Telecom companies must avoid compromising secrets required by the many third-party services they rely on to maintain consistent security across hybrid environments and prevent attackers from intercepting or manipulating communications.

High-speed innovation

The fast-paced telecommunications industry may favor innovation over caution to maintain a competitive edge. External growth expands development teams with varying levels of secret security maturity. Developers need governance and guardrails to minimize unsecured behaviors such as improper usage of AI-generated code or secret managers.

Intellectual Property protection in a highly competitive environment

As critical infrastructure providers, telecom companies are prime targets for attacks. They develop proprietary hardware designs, telecom standards, software, and algorithms to drive growth. A breach in code security allows competitors to reverse-engineer solutions and circumvent patents, leading to IP theft.

How does GitGuardian help telecom companies around the world?

Deploy with flexibility and scalability

Scalable monitoring: Monitor thousands of developers and repositories per instance in real-time, providing robust protection across large, decentralized development teams and expansive, geographically distributed infrastructures.

‍Flexible Deployment: Deploy in the Cloud or on-premises (including air-gapped environments) to support Telcos' evolving decentralized architecture and stringent regulatory requirements.

‍Enterprise-grade features: Support complex team structures, RBACs, audit logs, and extensive REST API and analytics integrations.

Identify and eliminate secrets exposure

Comprehensive detection: Detect and categorize over %ndet% types of secrets, including custom detectors for various third-party services telecom companies use.

High precision and recall: Ensure accurate detection with low false positives and no missed secrets, which is crucial for maintaining security without overwhelming security teams with alerts.

Multiple VCS support: Detect secrets over all popular VCS, fulfilling market consolidation requirements. GitGuardian simultaneously supports any number of instances of GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Server, Gitlab SaaS or on-premises (Self Managed and Dedicated), Azure Repos (Azure DevOps), or Bitbucket Data Center/Server.

Secrets detection beyond code: Monitor %external sources scanned for secrets% for hardcoded secrets, correlating findings across sources, guiding remediation, and ensuring secrets are rotated and revoked.

Get instant notifications of potential breaches

Real-time alerts: Detect intrusions and obtain immediate alerts for any potential breaches or leaks around codebases, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery and minimal impact on customers.

Workflow integrations: Integrate real-time alerts to your security workflows without impacting team efficiency. GitGuardian integrates with any SIEM or incident management tools such as %third parties with gg notifications integration%.

Attack surface surveillance: Extend monitoring to parts of the attack surface that security teams don't control, such as developer activity across public GitHub, where most internal secrets are leaked.

Prioritize and remediate effortlessly at scale

Decentralized remediation workflows: Promote shared responsibility between engineering and security teams, enhancing collaboration, effectiveness, and efficiency in handling the volume and complexity of incidents.

‍Custom guidelines and teams: Create tailored incident access and remediation guidelines, adapting to the intricacies of both old and new technologies and systems.

‍Automated incident response: Leverage automated severity scoring, incident triage, and playbooks to streamline the remediation process, reduce Median Time to Remediate (MTTR), and coordinate incident response actions across distributed environments.

Protect the entire Software Development LifeCycle

Shift-left to prevent the introduction of 60% of secrets incidents: Catch secrets before they enter the codebase with our VS Code extension, client-side pre-commit and pre-push hooks, and PR scanning—all without adding security overhead.

Detect vulnerabilities at every stage of the SDLC: Identify and remediate vulnerabilities from local developer machines, VCS servers (pre-receive and post-receive hooks), the CI/CD pipeline (native support for all leader solutions), and Docker images.

Local blocker bypass: Allow developers to bypass local blockers if necessary, while security teams are notified. Centralized security functions won't become bottlenecks. Or adopt a no-exception policy according to your compliance requirements.

Get continuous support and training

Dedicated support: Get help from dedicated technical account managers, benefit from extensive compatibility testing, custom integration efforts, and phased deployments to ensure GitGuardian is adopted across the organization.

‍Custom training programs: Design training programs to meet Telcos' specific needs, such as modules on telecom-specific vulnerabilities and threat vectors, bridging the gap between network operations and security principles, and ensuring the effective use of GitGuardian solutions.