GitHub Secret Scanning vs Xygeni

GitHub Secret Scanning detects exposed credentials so they can be secured before exploitation. It scans every branch in Git history, plus issue and pull request content, discussions, wikis, and secret gists. Detected leaks produce repository alerts with details about the credential, while push protection can block secrets before they enter code. Organizations can define regular expressions for their own secret formats. Generic patterns cover items such as private keys, connection strings, and API keys, and AI detection can identify unstructured secrets such as passwords. Validity checks may contact issuing services to see whether credentials remain active. GitHub can work with providers to validate findings and notify them for actions such as revocation. Scanning is automatic and free for public repositories. Private and internal organization repositories require Secret Protection on GitHub Team or Enterprise Cloud; Enterprise Server supports user-owned repositories with that protection. It is available through API, web, and self-hosted deployment, with hybrid deployment.

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.