Bearer vs Xygeni

Bearer CLI is a free static application security testing tool for Linux and macOS. It scans source code and analyzes data flows to identify security and privacy risks while analyzing code patterns instead of viewing actual data values. The tool supports more than 120 sensitive data types, including personal data, PII, and PHI. Privacy reports can show sensitive data, related data subjects, and internal or third-party components that process it, with information useful for GDPR records of processing activities. Security features include SAST rules and a separate hard-coded-secrets scanner. Bearer documents pull-request and CI/CD use with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and CircleCI, plus custom security rules. Listed stacks include Go, Python, PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Java. Installation options include scripts, Homebrew, Linux package managers, Docker, and binaries. macOS 12 or later and Git 2.34 or later are required.

Xygeni describes itself as an application security platform for risks across the software supply chain. Its scanner runs inside the customer’s network and can inspect directories, repositories, container images, or source-control organizations. Findings can be sent to a cloud dashboard or kept locally; Xygeni says source code is not uploaded for scanning. The platform checks configuration files, build scripts, and CI job definitions for supply-chain misconfigurations, and performs automated audits against OpenSSF Scorecard and CIS Software Supply Chain Security. Secrets Security identifies more than 100 types of secrets and can block commits through Git hooks. Xygeni supports SSO with SAML2 and offers a REST API for security issues, risk summaries, trends, reports, and administration. Documented integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Slack, and Jira. It supports ecosystems including Maven, Gradle, npm,.NET, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Dart/Flutter, as well as SBOM generation, reachability analysis, and pull-request scanning. The free plan covers five contributors, up to 10 repositories, and 200 scans per month.