GitGuardian Partners with GuidePoint Security to Strengthen Application Security Offerings

Carole Winqwist -

GitGuardian announces a strategic partnership with GuidePoint Security to deliver advanced secrets detection and remediation and non-human identity security solutions to organizations across North America. This collaboration enables GuidePoint Security customers to access GitGuardian's comprehensive suite of security tools designed to protect organizations from secrets sprawl, credential exposure and non-human identity mismanagement.

Comprehensive Secrets Security and NHI Security Solutions Now Available

Through GuidePoint Security, organizations can now implement GitGuardian's full range of security solutions:

  • Internal Repositories Monitoring: Automated scanning that detects hardcoded secrets across private Git repositories, and tools helping teams identify and remediate exposed credentials before they lead to breaches
  • Public GitHub Monitoring: Real-time alerts when company secrets appear in public GitHub repositories, enabling immediate response to potential exposures
  • Non-Human Identities (NHI) Governance: Centralized visibility and management of machine identities, service accounts, and API keys across cloud and on-premise environments, helping organizations maintain control over their growing digital identity landscape

This comprehensive suite addresses the full lifecycle of secrets management, from detection and remediation to governance of non-human identities that are increasingly critical in modern infrastructure. Organizations can now implement a complete secrets security strategy that covers both reactive detection and proactive governance measures.

Addressing Critical Security Challenges

The partnership addresses specific security challenges organizations face when managing secrets across their entire digital infrastructure:

  • Automated detection and prevention of exposed secrets (API keys, passwords, credentials) across multiple collaboration platforms including source code repositories, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and other developer tools
  • Streamlined remediation processes that maintain productivity 
  • Standardized security practices that extend beyond development teams to encompass all technical teams using modern collaboration tools
  • Comprehensive visibility into secrets exposure risks across the organization's entire digital footprint, not just within code repositories
  • Centralized governance of non-human identities including service accounts, API keys, and machine identities with automated discovery, lifecycle management, and access control
  • Enforcement of security policies and compliance requirements 

This broader approach acknowledges that secrets can leak through various channels in modern workplaces, requiring a holistic security strategy that covers all potential exposure points while maintaining operational efficiency.

"This partnership with GuidePoint Security significantly expands our ability to help organizations protect their sensitive data," says Lynne Lopez, Director of Partnerships at GitGuardian. "By combining GuidePoint's cybersecurity expertise with our non-human identity security capabilities, we're providing teams with the tools they need to secure their development practices effectively."

Partnership in Action at a Global Life Science Company


A global life sciences company with over 80,000 employees faced significant challenges in managing their application security and preventing the leakage of corporate credentials. Developers inadvertently exposed sensitive secrets on public GitHub through personal accounts, as well as on platforms like Slack, Jira, and Confluence, and by hardcoding secrets in source code.

To address these issues, the company implemented the GitGuardian Secrets Security Platform, including public monitoring. GitGuardian's solution provided seamless integration into existing developer workflows, accurate detection with low false positives, and customizable remediation processes.

The partnership with GuidePoint Security was crucial, providing technical oversight and program management. The success of this implementation, resulting in the elimination of corporate secrets from public repositories and enabling developers to self-resolve leaks, was seen as a major milestone for the GitGuardian and GuidePoint Security partnership, serving as a blueprint for future engagements.

About GuidePoint Security

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions that minimize risk. Their experts act as trusted advisors to understand business challenges, helping organizations through an evaluation of their cybersecurity posture and ecosystem to expose risks, optimize resources and implement best-fit solutions. GuidePoint's unmatched expertise has enabled more than a third of Fortune 500 companies and more than half of the U.S. government cabinet-level agencies to improve their security posture and reduce risk.