Automatic for agents running on GitHub. On request for the ones on your laptop.

GitHub runs CodeQL, dependency checks and secret scanning on code written by the agents it hosts, Copilot, Claude and Codex, before they open a pull request. Claude Code, Cursor or Windsurf running locally reach GitHub's scanners only through tools the agent chooses to call. CybeDefend checks every change inside those local sessions too.

What GitHub Advanced Security does well

CodeQL SAST, powerful and query-extensible, secret scanning with push protection, Dependabot for SCA with automatic security update pull requests, Copilot Autofix, security checks on code written by Copilot and third-party agents on GitHub, and free scanning for public repositories.

Where it stops

For private repositories, Secret Protection and Code Security are paid add-ons on a Team or Enterprise plan. Local agents such as Claude Code, Cursor or Windsurf reach GitHub's scanners only when they call its MCP tools. CodeQL's built-in authorization checks are narrow, mainly IDOR and missing access control in C#; wider business-logic coverage needs custom queries. The IDE security review runs on request and is in preview.

Feature by feature

22 features, checked on GitHub Advanced Security's own site and documentation in September 2026.

Feature	CybeDefend	GitHub Advanced Security
Detection
Agent-time scanning	Yes	Partial
SAST	Yes	Yes
SCA	Yes	Yes
IaC scanning	Yes	Partial
Container scanning	Yes	No
Secret detection	Yes	Yes
Business logic flaws	Yes	Partial
Reachability analysis	Yes	Partial
AI-BOM: AI component inventory (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF)	Yes	No
Prompt injection & LLM-misuse scanner (OWASP LLM Top 10)	Yes	Partial
AI & Agent
Agent-time (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf…)	Yes	Partial
IDE security copilot	Yes	Partial
AI-generated verified patches	Yes	Yes
Auto-fix → ready-to-merge PR	Yes	Yes
Security Code Knowledge Graph	Yes	No
VibeDefend: security rules distributed to AI coding agents	Yes	No
Coding agent sandbox policy (allow/deny/warn before every write)	Yes	Partial
Operations
CI/CD pipeline gate	Yes	Yes
Low false-positive rate	Yes	Partial
Fast self-serve setup	Yes	Yes
CybeRisk Score: 0-100 score + AI-generated weekly Top 10 brief	Yes	No
EU/US sovereign deployment	Yes	Partial

Yes NoPartial

Where we win

Hosted agents vs local agents

GitHub's security validation runs automatically on agents it hosts: Copilot's coding agent and third-party agents such as Claude and Codex working in your repository. Agents running on a developer's machine are different: GitHub's MCP server gives them code scanning and secret scanning tools, but the agent decides when to call them. CybeDefend runs inside those local sessions and checks each change as it is written.

VibeDefend: rule broadcastactive

Claude CodeRules served
CursorRules served
GitHub CopilotRules served
OpenAI CodexRules served

Business logic: beyond the built-in queries

CodeQL ships a few authorization queries, such as insecure direct object references and missing access control in C#, and it is a powerful language for writing more. Covering your own business logic still means writing and maintaining those queries. CybeDefend mines your codebase to extract business rules and checks them automatically, with no query authoring required.

Logic Flow Tracerbypass detected

POST /api/admin
Auth check
Role required?skip
Admin action
Sensitive data

Bypass caught by CybeDefend

Push time vs write time

GitHub blocks secrets at push time, runs CodeQL on pushes and pull requests, and Copilot Autofix proposes fixes on the pull request. CybeDefend intercepts earlier, while the AI agent is still writing, so the fix lands in the same agent turn that produced the flaw.

SQL injection, found while the agent writes

CWE-89

const id = parseInt(req.query.id, 10)

PR opens clean

Checks every change in the AI agents your team runs locally, not only the ones GitHub hosts. Business-rule checks without writing queries. Works with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.

Pricing at a glance

Our platform is free to self-host, or priced per active developer on Cloud. VibeDefend is free to try, then priced with you after a pilot.

CybeDefend

CommunityFree, on your servers
CloudPriced per active developer
EnterpriseOn quote
VibeDefendFree to try, then a price set with you

See full pricing

GitHub Advanced Security

Secret Protection + Code Security10 users$5,880/year

Competitor prices: the lowest annual list price published for the plan shown, taken from the vendor's website or its own marketplace listing and checked in September 2026. Always verify before purchasing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does CybeDefend integrate with GitHub?

Yes. CybeDefend integrates with GitHub Actions for CI/CD gating, and with the GitHub pull-request workflow for inline findings. It is not limited to GitHub. It also integrates with GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps.

Does CybeDefend need a paid GitHub plan?

No. CybeDefend works with GitHub Free, Pro, Team and Enterprise, and with other git hosts. GitHub's own Secret Protection and Code Security add-ons, by contrast, require a Team or Enterprise plan for private repositories.

Is GHAS free for open-source projects?

Largely, yes. On public repositories GitHub enables code scanning with CodeQL, Copilot Autofix, secret scanning and push protection at no cost, and Dependabot is available too. For private repositories, Secret Protection costs $19 and Code Security $30 per active committer per month, on a Team or Enterprise plan. VibeDefend is free to try in your coding agents, and Community, the open-source edition of the CybeDefend platform, is free on your own servers (private beta).

Install VibeDefend

One command wires every coding agent on this machine to your rules and your guards.

npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install