GitHub Advanced Security

Every minute, GitHub blocks several secrets with push protection—but secret leaks still remain one of the most common causes of security incidents. Learn how GitHub is making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets, including today’s launches of standalone Secret Protection, org-wide scanning, and better access for teams of all sizes.

Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them.

Find out how we’re evolving GitHub and GitHub Copilot—and get access to the latest previews and GA releases.

With Copilot Autofix, developers and security teams can keep new vulnerabilities out of code and confidently remediate their backlog of security debt.

Here’s how SAST tools combine generative AI with code scanning to help you deliver features faster and keep vulnerabilities out of code.

Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.

A peek under the hood of GitHub Advanced Security code scanning autofix.

In practice, shifting left has been more about shifting the burden rather than the ability. But AI is bringing its promise closer to reality. Here’s how.

When socializing a new security tool, it IS possible to build a bottom-up security culture where engineering has a seat at the table. Let’s explore some effective strategies witnessed by the GitHub technical sales team to make this shift successful.

Developers care about security, but poorly integrated tools and other factors can cause frustration. Here are five best practices to reduce friction.

Learn about how GitHub Advanced Security’s new AI-powered features can help you secure your code more efficiently than ever.

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now generally available. Enable secret scanning, dependency scanning, and code scanning on your organization directly in Azure DevOps configuration settings.

Make quick work of alerts with preset and custom rules.

We’ve launched the beta of code scanning support for Swift. This launch, paired with our launch of Kotlin support in November, means that CodeQL covers both IOS and Android development languages, bringing a heightened level of security to the mobile application development process.

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos.