Key security challenges highlighted include identifying all secrets, tracking their active status (noting that a large share of secrets leaked years ago remain active), and understanding who or what is using these credentials.

Notable customers include DigitalOcean, Snowflake, Datadog, ING, Euronext, and BASF, signaling broad enterprise traction.

The platform extends beyond detection to actively monitor for leaks and the use of honeytokens as a defense against intruders.

GitGuardian’s platform scans code repositories, software supply chains, and public sources to detect more than 550 types of secrets, with flexible SaaS or self-hosted deployments and integration into development workflows and version control systems like GitHub.

It provides continuous discovery, usage monitoring, and remediation workflows—alerting, revocation, and rotation—for exposed secrets within development processes.

The solution emphasizes public monitoring for leaked data, claims a 91% true-positive rate, and counts over 600,000 developers as users across more than 610,000 repositories and 210,000 connected collaboration sources, positioning it as the most installed security tool on GitHub Marketplace.

Regulatory demand in Europe—driven by GDPR, NIS2, and DORA—drives the need for secrets management and NHI governance, with GitGuardian serving Fortune 500 clients across technology, financial services, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing, including Deutsche Telekom, ING, BASF, and Snowflake.

2025 momentum highlights: over 115,000 developers protected, more than 610,000 repositories monitored, 210,000 connected collaboration sources, and 350,000 secrets exposures remediated, with 60% of new enterprise customers on multi-year contracts and North America accounting for 80%+ ARR.

GitGuardian today unveiled a $50 million Series C to accelerate its growth in secrets security and Non-Human Identity (NHI) governance, aiming to expand across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa with a stronger emphasis on AI agent security and NHI lifecycle governance.

The funds will power three strategic pillars: advancing AI agent security to detect, monitor, and govern credentials used by AI systems; delivering enterprise-scale NHI governance with automated discovery, usage analytics, rotation policies, and compliance reporting; and expanding geographically, with a focus on the US, APAC, South America, Middle East, and Europe (notably DACH, UK, France, and Nordic markets).

GitGuardian positions itself as the leading NHI security platform and the #1 GitHub Marketplace app, targeting continued adoption by large enterprises and planning to increase hiring in engineering, sales, and customer success in the US and Europe.

Industry context notes a shift from human-centric identity solutions to non-human identities, with recent breaches accelerating urgency for this market transition.