Comcast is releasing a new software tool, xGitGuard, as an open source project to the community at large. The tool is designed to proactively search the open source repositories of GitHub for code that was supposed to remain proprietary.
The idea behind xGitGuard is to provide an automated method of checking through GitHub repositories for code that shouldn’t be there — an important consideration for modern development teams, given the increasing usage of open source code. The tool uses NLP (natural language processing) technology, AI modeling and other advanced techniques to programmatically identify and validate secret code on GitHub, as well as identifying which developer accounts posted those secrets.
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