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WhiteSource Partners With GitHub to Help Developers Code More Securely

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Thursday, May 23, 2019

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- WhiteSource , the leader in open source security and license compliance management, announced today a partnership with GitHub, the leading software development platform, to help developers more easily detect open source vulnerabilities in their GitHub repositories.

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  • TEL AVIV, Israel, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- WhiteSource , the leader in open source security and license compliance management, announced today a partnership with GitHub, the leading software development platform, to help developers more easily detect open source vulnerabilities in their GitHub repositories.
  • GitHub launched security alerts in late 2017 to notify developers about vulnerable dependencies in their public and private repositories and identify relevant fixes for JavaScript, Ruby, Java, .NET, and Python.
  • GitHub is now expanding the offering by partnering with WhiteSource to help broaden the coverage of potential security vulnerabilities in open source projects.
  • Industry leaders like Microsoft, IBM, and hundreds more trust WhiteSource to secure and manage the open source components in their software.