GuardRails Reviews

We've started using guard rails recently, but it has already proven very useful in finding issues with old code, giving us more visibility into issues we didn't know, and allowing us to plan their fixing.

More than a year after we're still very happy with the product.

Whe managed to remove old bugs or security issues and we're now actively scannig new code to avoid them from entering our production code.

I had some issues while connecting to bitbucket, but it works without problems now.

We need a tool to scan our code for security issues to prevent their creation

The platform boasts a range of features. Its an encompassing tool that identifies vulnerabilities within code.

Developers are often left to figure things out on their own which is time consuming and frustrating at times.

The integration of security checks resolved our problem surrounding code security assurance. By identifying vulnerabilities at a stage, in the development process our business benefits from code quality.

Guardrails is an exceptional tool for operationalizing and managing vulnerability in DevSecOps. Its strength lies in providing comprehensive visibility across multiple branches, ensuring effective software composition analysis. The tool's governance capabilities prevent any misuse or abuse of the scanning process, making it an ideal choice for maintaining control and security. With Guardrails, you can confidently manage and mitigate vulnerabilities, making it an invaluable asset in the realm of DevSecOps. In addition to its operationalization and vulnerability management features, Guardrails stands out with its concise and extensive secrets detection rules. These rules eliminate the need for hiring a dedicated team to craft intricate codeQL or sempgrep rules. Guardrails simplifies the process by providing predefined rules that effectively detect secrets, saving valuable time and resources for your DevSecOps team.

Guardrails, as a relatively small firm, shows immense potential in its offerings. One area where it could further excel is by expanding its secrets management capabilities. Currently, it effectively detects secrets; however, enhancing its functionality to include scanning commit messages and titles, as well as retrospective scans, would significantly augment its overall effectiveness. These additions would enhance the scope of coverage and provide a more comprehensive approach to securing sensitive information. With such improvements, Guardrails has the potential to become an even more powerful tool in the realm of DevSecOps.

GuardRails solves several key problems, particularly for small lean security teams focused on governance. Firstly, it provides comprehensive vulnerability management and operationalization, enabling efficient identification and mitigation of security risks throughout the software development lifecycle.

By offering software composition analysis and effective scanning, GuardRails ensures coverage and effectiveness in vulnerability detection. This saves valuable time and resources for the security team, allowing them to focus on other critical tasks.

Furthermore, GuardRails' governance capabilities play a crucial role in maintaining control and preventing misuse or abuse of the scanning process. This is vital for ensuring adherence to security policies and maintaining a secure development environment.

With GuardRails, small lean security teams benefit from a streamlined approach to vulnerability management, increased visibility over multiple branches, and a centralized platform for governance. These benefits help these teams effectively address security concerns, enhance governance practices, and allocate their limited resources more efficiently.

As a Developer GuardRails giving a lot of help. By providing some information related to the code which we build. It's gave us an insight how to make a better code for our application.

Sometimes when pushing the code. There is some process which is stuck. And we need to cancel and repush the code.

Guardrails giving us a good insight how to make a good code for our application. It's speed up our development process.

I like that the focus of GuardRails is to push responsibility for code quality back on the software engineer. Working inside of GuardRails is intuitive for tech and non-tech persons.

There is no capability to schedule full scans (even after a rule change), but you can do it in mass by manually going through and selecting repositories to scan and submit it.

We have a smaller application security team, so GuardRails helps us ensure secure code by reporting directly to the software developer (or code developers). It prevents a process where security has historically be responsible for updating the development teams on the vulnerabilities needing to be fixed. The developers see it for themselves.

Guardrails Automatically and accurately Scan Vulnerabilities in your Repository with curated rules and giving a clear guidance to fix the vulnerability.

There are still some kind of minor Bug found in the System.

One of the most Great things about Guardrails is the way it detecting the Clear text password embedded in the code.

The Insight menu in Guardrails also very usefull to create a report for Board/executive that give a Summary about the Vulnerabilities.

easy to use, no configuration needed, pull request scanning, great for small teams

The access control could be better: Everyone from my team can connect to the tool. I can assign different roles, but there's no way to approve or revoke access in general.

GuardRails is scanning for security issues in our code whenever we create a pull request.

GuardRails provides a range of security scanning characters They have been good in solving encountered during the integration process.

JIRA is helpful in receiving real time notifications, about security issues which is overwhelming. It becomes difficult to prioritize.

By integrating security checks into requests GuardRails solves the problem of merging code into our codebase. This improves that our business remains protected from security threats while helping us maintain an reliable software infrastructure

Onboarding to GuardRails is straightforward, and vulnerability scanning starts right away. Since every code commit triggers a new scan, developers are made aware of any weaknesses in their code much earlier in the software development lifecycle. Thus, costly refactoring exercises at later stages can be avoided.

While GuardRails supports Monorepo configuration, the setup could be improved by auto-suggesting the repo setup and allowing the user to accept proposals rather than defining the repo structure manually. In a Monorepo, having an aggregated view on the same vulnerability for a dependency would be beneficial rather than listing each hit individually.

Allowing developers to ship secure code to production with confidence in an agile manner.

GuardRails provides an easy and intuitive ways for both dev and security persons in integrating code security in the development cycle.

Currently there's no scheduled scan which will help for codes that no longer actively modified but depending on external library which may have vulnerabilities.

Currently we only have one security officer while we're expanding our development team. GuardRails helps us to ensure code security back to the dev team and integrate nicely with our tool.