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detect-secrets vs GitGuardian: What are the differences?
detect-secrets: An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code, by Yelp. detect-secrets is an aptly named module for (surprise, surprise) detecting secrets within a code base. However, unlike other similar packages that solely focus on finding secrets, this package is designed with the enterprise client in mind: providing a backwards compatible, systematic means of: Preventing new secrets from entering the code base, Detecting if such preventions are explicitly bypassed, and Providing a checklist of secrets to roll, and migrate off to a more secure storage; GitGuardian: Detect secrets in source code, public and private. The first platform scanning all GitHub public activity in real time for API secret tokens, database credentials or vault keys. Be alerted in seconds. Integrate in minutes.
detect-secrets and GitGuardian belong to "Secrets Detection" category of the tech stack.
detect-secrets is an open source tool with 852 GitHub stars and 74 GitHub forks. Here's a link to detect-secrets's open source repository on GitHub.