GitGuardian started at the end of 2017 with two passionate engineers Jérémy Thomas and Eric Fourrier (our CEO) who wondered if they could find secrets (API keys, authentication tokens, passwords) leaked on public GitHub.

And they did! They were astonished by the magnitude of what they found : not just random secrets but secrets exposing very large organizations and governments!

This is how GitGuardian was born. Since then, GitGuardian has gone a long way and has been a very successful scale-up, growing fast year on year , securing solid funding from prominent investors and becoming an extended code security platform for the DevOps generation.

WHAT’S NEXT ?

In only a few years, GitGuardian has become a global leader in secret detection! We are proud to say that, today, more than 300,000 developers use our products around the world and we’re sending more than 1.3 million alerts per year as part of our pro-bono alerting service to developers.

The next steps are not steps but more of a race!

GitGuardian has big ambitions and wants to become THE code security platform for the DevOps generation. We now build from our secret detection expertise and encode a wide variety of vulnerabilities to compete with legacy code security platforms, thanks to our diverse solutions: Secrets Detection, Honeytoken, Infra as Code, ggshield, Public Monitoring.

GitGuardian is an international company with a global team principally based in France and in the USA, but also in other parts of Europe.

JOIN US!

To do so we hire the BEST experts at a fast pace. We’re always looking for talents. We’re more than 150 Guardians today and expect to be 200 at the end of 2024! To join us and enjoy the ride, it’s here!