gosec vs Xygeni

gosec is a free Go source-code security checker that analyzes abstract syntax trees and static single assignment representations. It applies pattern rules, SSA analyzers, and taint analysis to detect issues including injection, path traversal, SSRF, unsafe deserialization, cryptography and TLS problems, blocklisted imports, and Go-specific risks. Findings map to Common Weakness Enumeration entries. Users can select or exclude rules, define path-based exclusions, and change settings such as audit mode. Reports are available as text, JSON, YAML, CSV, JUnit XML, HTML, SonarQube, golint, and SARIF. The project documents GitHub Actions and SARIF uploads to GitHub code scanning; its goanalysis package supports tools such as Bazel nogo. Local installation requires Go 1.25 or newer, with dependencies loaded through Go modules. An optional AI feature suggests fixes through Atlas Cloud, Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, or custom OpenAI-compatible APIs. Automated detection can produce false positives, which annotations can suppress. It is licensed under Apache License 2.0.

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.