The Growing Risk of Source Code Exposure
Protect proprietary code across repositories with BigID Source Code Protection.
As enterprises accelerate software development, integrate AI tools, and rely heavily on open-source libraries, the line between public and proprietary code is becoming harder to maintain. A single misplaced file or copied snippet can expose valuable intellectual property, create compliance risk, or compromise competitive advantage.
Traditional tools struggle to detect when internal code surfaces in public repositories or AI training datasets, leaving organizations blind to source code leakage and IP reuse.
Why Detecting Code Leaks Is So Challenging
Scanning millions of repositories across platforms like GitHub y GitLab to find potential code leaks is an enormous task.
Most legacy approaches rely on basic pattern matching or signature-based detection, missing nuanced variations of proprietary code, renamed functions, or partial reuse in open-source environments.
Even worse, some “protection” methods depend on embedding watermarks or digital signatures into the code itself, introducing friction, creating operational risks, and altering source integrity.
BigID’s Fingerprinting Approach: Smarter, Non-Intrusive, and Scalable
BigID’s Source Code Protection takes a fundamentally different approach. There’s no watermarking, no hidden signature, and no modification to the source code.
Instead, BigID uses fingerprinting and intelligent keyword tracking to identify what’s uniquely yours. By analyzing function names, variable structures, syntax patterns, and user-defined keywords, BigID builds a fingerprint of your proprietary codebase, safely and non-invasively.
This fingerprint acts as a digital reference (not a mark inside the code) that BigID uses to detect and monitor potential code leaks, exposures, or reuse across public and private repositories, even if the code has been refactored or partially changed.
Cómo funciona
1. Fingerprint Creation
BigID identifies unique identifiers, functions, syntax patterns, and user-defined keywords within your proprietary source code to generate a precise fingerprint, without inserting or altering anything within the code.
2. Smart Scanning Across Repositories
Leveraging native search indexes from GitHub, GitLab, and other repositories, BigID performs fast, targeted scans to locate potential matches and associated exposure risk.
3. Enhanced Detection with Intelligent Keyword Tracking
La inteligencia artificial de BigID descubrimiento y clasificación tracks both automatically detected and user-defined keywords, improving detection accuracy across renamed, refactored, or modularized codebases.
4. Deep Analysis for Contextual Matches
When a match is identified, BigID performs a deeper inspection to validate whether the exposed code truly aligns with your proprietary fingerprints.
5. Alerting and Remediation
Upon confirmed exposure, BigID triggers automated alerts, policy-based actions, and remediación natively and through integrations across the security stack. Delete, move, anonymize, encrypt, and more.
Key Capabilities
Comprehensive Code Discovery
Scan millions of public and private repositories to uncover potential exposures of proprietary code fragments.
Accurate Fingerprinting & Classification
Use AI- and NLP-based models to fingerprint function names, syntax, and structure — with support for intelligent, user-defined keyword tracking.
Continuous Detection & Monitoring
Continuously monitor for code reuse or exposure, even when snippets are renamed, restructured, or embedded in larger projects.
Policy Enforcement & Automated Remediation
Define and enforce policies to govern how proprietary code is stored or shared, triggering alerts or custom remediation workflows when violations occur.
Beneficios y resultados
Protect Intellectual Property and Competitive Advantage
Mitigate accidental or malicious exposure of proprietary code in public repositories or AI datasets – safeguarding the innovations, algorithms, and designs that differentiate your business.
Strengthen Data Security Posture
Extend your data security and governance programs beyond structured data to include source code – closing a critical blind spot for DSP, DSPM, DLPy riesgo interno iniciativas.
Maintain Continuous Oversight and Operational Control
Gain end-to-end visibility into how sensitive code moves, changes, and surfaces across environments – empowering security and engineering teams to respond faster and enforce consistent policies.
Secure AI and Software Supply Chains
Protect proprietary code fueling AI models, applications, and digital products – reducing the risk of model contamination, IP theft, and regulatory scrutiny tied to AI transparency and data provenance.
Protect Your Code – Without Changing It
BigID’s Source Code Protection safeguards your proprietary code without inserting, modifying, or watermarking anything. By combining intelligent fingerprinting with user-defined keyword tracking, BigID helps organizations continuously detect and prevent code exposure while maintaining the integrity of their source code.
Learn more about BigID’s DSPM and Source Code Protection today. Set up a 1:1 with one of our AI and data security experts today!
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