AWS Lab's git-secrets Alternatives

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity startup focusing on code security solutions for the DevOps generation. A leader in the market of secrets detection and remediation, its solutions are already used by hundred thousands developers in all industries.

Searches through git repositories for secrets, digging deep into commit history and branches. This is effective at finding secrets accidentally committed.

rules to identify files containing juicy information like usernames, passwords etc - DiabloHorn/yara4pentesters

CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a git repo, eg passwords, private keys - UKHomeOffice/repo-security-scanner

detect-secrets is an aptly named module for (surprise, surprise) detecting secrets within a code base.

Cremit is an all-in-one credential security platform designed for developers and security teams. This service integrates with source code version control systems, collaboration tools, and messaging platforms to effectively detect and manage secret information.

Gitrob is a tool to help find potentially sensitive files pushed to public repositories on Github. Gitrob will clone repositories belonging to a user or organization down to a configurable depth and iterate through the commit history and flag files that match signatures for...

It happens sometimes that you can commit secrets or passwords to your repository by accident. The recommended best practice is not commit the secrets, that's obvious. But not always that obvious when you have a big merge waiting to be reviewed.

Audit git repos for secrets. Gitleaks provides a way for you to find unencrypted secrets and other unwanted data types in git source code repositories. As part of it's core functionality, it provides;