Kingfisher Alternatives

Apps similar to Kingfisher include Gitleaks, which is free and open source. Other options are AWS Lab's git-secrets, GitGuardian, truffleHog and repo-security-scanner. In total there are seven apps like Kingfisher for Mac, Windows, Linux and self-hosting.

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  1. Gitleaks icon
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    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;

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. git-secrets scans commits, commit messages, and --no-ff merges to prevent adding secrets into your git repositories. If a commit, commit message, or any commit in a --no-ff merge history matches one of your configured prohibited regular expression patterns, then the commit is...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. GitGuardian icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. Searches through git repositories for secrets, digging deep into commit history and branches. This is effective at finding secrets accidentally committed.

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. detect-secrets is an aptly named module for (surprise, surprise) detecting secrets within a code base.

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  7. Gitrob icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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