Mackenzie Jackson, GitGuardian: “code security needs to be a layered approach”

GitGuardian, co-founded by engineers Jeremy Thomas and Eric Fourier, emerged from a jiu-jitsu encounter and a curiosity-driven experiment with the GitHub API, revealing a concerning scale of sensitive data leaks in public repositories. The company offers dual monitoring products: one for public GitHub repositories and another for private codebases, providing comprehensive security by scanning for leaked secrets and empowering developers with preventive tools. Amidst the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, accentuated by the pandemic, GitGuardian emphasizes a layered security approach, utilizing multiple specialized vendors, and advocates for integrating security into the software development lifecycle through practices like DevSecOps. The company is focused on extending its security solutions, fueled by a successful Series B funding, to include infrastructure as code (IaC) security and tools for detecting IP leaks, aspiring to enhance the shared security model across development, security, and operations teams.

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