Kingfisher Alternatives

Kingfisher is described as 'High-speed, open-source secret scanner and live validation tool. It scans code, Git history, developer platforms, cloud storage, collaboration tools, and containers, then verifies exposed credentials, maps their blast radius across identities, permissions, and' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are seven alternatives to Kingfisher for Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and SaaS. The best Kingfisher alternative is Gitleaks, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kingfisher are AWS Lab's git-secrets, GitGuardian, truffleHog and repo-security-scanner.

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  1. Gitleaks icon
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    Audit git repos for secrets. Gitleaks provides a way for you to find unencrypted secrets and other unwanted data types in git source code repositories. As part of it's core functionality, it provides;

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. git-secrets scans commits, commit messages, and --no-ff merges to prevent adding secrets into your git repositories. If a commit, commit message, or any commit in a --no-ff merge history matches one of your configured prohibited regular expression patterns, then the commit is...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. GitGuardian icon
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    GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity startup focusing on code security solutions for the DevOps generation. A leader in the market of secrets detection and remediation, its solutions are already used by hundred thousands developers in all industries.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. Searches through git repositories for secrets, digging deep into commit history and branches. This is effective at finding secrets accidentally committed.

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  5. CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a git repo, eg passwords, private keys - UKHomeOffice/repo-security-scanner

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Gitrob icon
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    Gitrob is a tool to help find potentially sensitive files pushed to public repositories on Github. Gitrob will clone repositories belonging to a user or organization down to a configurable depth and iterate through the commit history and flag files that match signatures for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  7. detect-secrets is an aptly named module for (surprise, surprise) detecting secrets within a code base.

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