Is GitGuardian secure?

Legit.Show measured GitGuardian's Security frame at 80/100. Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure GitGuardian?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Developer Tools

GitGuardian

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-13 — deterministic & reproducible

GitGuardian detects and helps remediate exposed secrets across code and developer tools.

74/100

7/7 frames

Top 63% of 14,148 measured · #21 of 35 in vulnerability scanner

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-13 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored GitGuardian 74/100 on 2026-09-13, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/gitguardian-com/2026-09-13

Is GitGuardian production-ready?

Legit.Show scores GitGuardian 74 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on GitGuardian (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 46/100
Accessibility — 89/100
Security — 80/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 55/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 79/100
Discoverability — 70/100

What we measured

Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 77 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Discoverable: sitemap, OpenGraph image.

Who built it

product account @GitGuardian

Who it's for

DevSecOps teams · Security engineers · Developers · Enterprise organizations · SecOps analysts

Pricing

Free (Starter plan for up to 25 devs), Growth plan (up to 500 devs, custom pricing), Enterprise plan (500+ devs, custom pricing)

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from gitguardian.com's own website on 2026-08-03.
Operator: GitGuardian, as named in gitguardian.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-13.

Put together from public information, without GitGuardian's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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