Case study — IP & brand protection
Your source code is the product.
Exploit Shield watches for leaked source code, research data, and proprietary designs across public developer platforms, so years of R&D don't hand a competitor a shortcut.
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The case study
Years of R&D, sitting in a public repository.
Incident · Automotive
Leaked IP of an Autonomous Driving Program
A Fortune 500 automotive company had years of sensitive research, development data, and confidential intellectual property tied to an autonomous driving program sitting in a public GitHub repository. Exploit Shield detected the exposure before it could be exploited.
The risk wasn't abstract. The leaked IP could have been used as leverage in a targeted ransomware campaign, exposed proprietary designs and research that compromised the company's competitive advantage, or let a competitor shortcut years of their own R&D, all from a repository nobody was watching.
The repository was secured and access controls tightened quickly after confirmation. The company came away with a prioritized plan for monitoring exposed IP across public platforms going forward, protecting its competitive edge without the financial and reputational impact a slower discovery would have caused.
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Three risks, sharply reduced by one finding.
Each of these was live the entire time the repository sat exposed. Detection and remediation didn't just close a repository, it collapsed all three risks at once.
How Exploit Shield helps
Your R&D doesn't stop being valuable the moment it leaks.
Coverage where source code actually leaks
Continuous monitoring of GitHub, GitLab, and Docker Hub, the public developer platforms where source code and research data most often end up exposed.
Scoped to what's actually proprietary
Onboarding includes the product names, internal systems, and unique identifiers tied to your IP, so findings are scored against what actually matters to your research and development.
Detected before it becomes leverage
Exposure is flagged and triaged before it turns into ransomware leverage or a shortcut for a competitor's R&D.
Delivered into your existing workflow
Findings route into Jira, Splunk, or OpenCTI, so containment and remediation start immediately, not after another report lands in an inbox.