Prevent Intellectual Property Leakage
Protecting your IP isn’t just about what comes into your codebase… it’s also about what goes out.
Contribute to Open Source without Risk
The Challenge
- Internal forks drift, and fixes need to be contributed upstream to avoid long-term maintenance burdens.
- Proprietary code, confidential algorithms, or licensed third-party code could be unintentionally contributed to public repositories, creating IP and compliance exposure.
- Traditional SCA focuses on what comes in; few controls exist for what goes out.
Why Now
- Enterprises are moving from “fork and forget” to “contribute and collaborate”.
- Supplier and customer contracts increasingly mandate supply chain integrity.
- Legal and OSPO teams need preventive controls that do not slow contribution workflows.
How FossID Helps
Custom Volumes
Build a custom knowledge base for proprietary code. Scan proposed open source contributions against it to block or flag leakage before code leaves your org.
Tunable Snippet Detection
Detects code fragments as small as six lines with resilience to formatting and minor changes, minimizing false negatives and avoiding noisy reviews.
Confidential by Design
Digital fingerprinting ensures source code does not leave your environment. One‑way hashes are preserve confidentiality while enabling accurate matching.
How It Works
Build a Custom Volume
Choose sensitive repositories and branches, incorporate partner or licensed components, and optionally include legacy code that must remain internal.
Review and Remediate
Developers see precise snippet matches with locations and suggested actions, while OSPO and Legal receive complete audit reports.
Scan Contributions
Integrate pre‑contribution scans into developer workflows and conduct complete audit scans in the SCA application.
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